Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2Ki 14:1-6 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart. 2Ch 25:14Jas 4:82Ch 24:2Act 8:21Isa 29:131Sa 16:72Ch 26:42Ki 14:4
¶ Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. 1 2Ch 24:25-262Ki 14:5-22Exo 21:14Gen 9:5-6Num 35:31-33 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin. Deu 24:16Ezk 18:202Ki 14:5-6Jer 31:29-30Ezk 18:4
¶ Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield. Num 1:32Ch 17:14-182Ch 11:11Ch 13:11Ch 27:11Sa 8:122Ch 14:82Ch 26:13 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver. But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim. 2Ch 19:21Ki 12:281Ki 13:11Ti 6:112Ch 13:122Sa 12:12Ti 3:17Hos 5:13-15 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down. 2Ch 14:112Ch 20:6Php 4:19Luk 18:29-301Sa 14:62Ch 1:122Ch 18:14Deu 8:18 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this. 2 Deu 8:18Pro 10:22 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger. 3 4 1Ki 12:242Sa 19:43Pro 29:22
¶ And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand. 2Ki 14:72Sa 8:13Psa 60:1 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces. 2Ch 20:101Ch 20:32Ch 21:8-102Sa 12:31
¶ But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil. 5 1Ki 16:241Ki 16:291Ki 9:172Ch 8:5
¶ Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them. 2Ch 28:232Sa 5:21Deu 7:25Deu 7:5Exo 20:3-5Isa 44:19 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand? Psa 96:52Ch 25:11-121Co 10:201Co 8:42Ch 16:7-92Ch 19:22Ch 20:372Ch 24:20 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel. 6 1Sa 2:252Ch 16:102Ch 18:20-212Ch 18:252Ch 24:212Ti 4:3Act 4:28Amo 7:10-13
¶ Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face. 2Ki 14:8-142Ch 25:132Sa 2:14Pro 20:3 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle. 7 8 Jdg 9:8-151Ki 4:33Psa 80:13 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? 2Ch 26:162Ch 32:251Co 1:291Pe 5:52Ch 35:21Dan 5:20-23Deu 8:14Hab 2:4 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom. 1Ki 12:152Ch 22:71Pe 2:82Ch 25:162Th 2:9-11Act 28:25-27Psa 81:11-12 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah. 1Sa 6:19-201Sa 6:9Jos 21:16 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent. 9 1Ki 22:361Sa 4:102Ch 28:5-6 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. 10 2Ch 21:17Neh 8:162Ch 22:12Ch 26:9Jer 31:38Neh 12:392Ch 22:62Ch 33:11 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. 1Ch 26:152Ch 12:92Ki 14:14
¶ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. 2Ki 14:17-22 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? 2Ch 20:342Ki 14:15
¶ Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there. 11 12 2Ch 15:22Ch 24:252Ki 14:19Jos 10:31 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah. 13 2Ki 14:20