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Chronicles 25-27
2Ch
25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
2Ch
25:2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with
a perfect heart.
2Ch
25:3 Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him, that
he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.
2Ch
25:4 But he didn't put their children to death, but did according to
that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh
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.
2Ch
25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them
according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and
captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered
them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred
thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear
and shield.
2Ch
25:6 He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of
Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
2Ch
25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, don't let
the army of Israel go with you; for Yahweh is not with Israel, to
wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
2Ch
25:8 But if you will go, do valiantly,
be strong for the battle: God will cast you down before the enemy;
for God has power to help, and to cast down.
2Ch
25:9 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? The man of
God answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.
2Ch
25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, to
wit, the army that had come to him out
of Ephraim, to go home again: therefore their anger was greatly
kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.
2Ch
25:11 Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to
the Valley of Salt, and struck of the children of Seir ten thousand.
2Ch
25:12 other
ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive, and brought
them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the
rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.
2Ch
25:13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they
should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from
Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and
took much spoil.
2Ch
25:14 Now it happened, 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 to them.
2Ch
25:15 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah, and
he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why have you sought after
the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out
of your hand?
2Ch
25:16 It happened, as he talked with him, that the
king said to him, Have we made you of
the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be struck down? Then the
prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy
you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.
2Ch
25:17 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
look one another in the face.
2Ch
25:18 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 your daughter to my son as wife: and there
passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the
thistle.
2Ch
25:19 You say, Behold, you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts
you up to boast: abide now at home; why should you meddle to your
hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
2Ch
25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might
deliver them into the hand of their
enemies, because they had sought after
the gods of Edom.
2Ch
25:21 So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of
Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs
to Judah.
2Ch
25:22 Judah was defeated by Israel; and they fled every man to his
tent.
2Ch
25:23 Joash 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 broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of
Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2Ch
25:24 He took
all the gold and 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.
2Ch
25:25 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2Ch
25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold,
aren't they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
2Ch
25:27 Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following
Yahweh they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled
to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
2Ch
25:28 They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in
the city of Judah.
2Ch
26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old,
and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2Ch
26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
2Ch
26:3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he
reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
2Ch
26:4 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to
all that his father Amaziah had done.
2Ch
26:5 He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had
understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought Yahweh,
God made him to prosper.
2Ch
26:6 He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke
down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of
Ashdod; and he built cities in the
country of Ashdod, and among the
Philistines.
2Ch
26:7 God helped him against the Philistines, and against the
Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
2Ch
26:8 The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread
abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceeding strong.
2Ch
26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate,
and at the valley gate, and at the turning of
the wall, and fortified them.
2Ch
26:10 He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns,
for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and
he had farmers and vineyard keepers in
the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.
2Ch
26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to
war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by
Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of
Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
2Ch
26:12 The whole number of the heads of fathers' houses,
even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred.
2Ch
26:13 Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven
thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help
the king against the enemy.
2Ch
26:14 Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, and
spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for
slinging.
2Ch
26:15 He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be
on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and
great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously
helped, until he was strong.
2Ch
26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he
did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went
into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.
2Ch
26:17 Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty
priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men:
2Ch
26:18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It
pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the
priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go
out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be
for your honor from Yahweh God.
2Ch
26:19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn
incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke
forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh,
beside the altar of incense.
2Ch
26:20 Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him,
and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out
quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, because
Yahweh had struck him.
2Ch
26:21 Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived
in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house
of Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the
people of the land.
2Ch
26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah
the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
2Ch
26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they
said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
2Ch
27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
2Ch
27:2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to
all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the
temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly.
2Ch
27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall
of Ophel he built much.
2Ch
27:4 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in
the forests he built castles and towers.
2Ch
27:5 He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and
prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year
one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat,
and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render
to him, in the second year also, and in the third.
2Ch
27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before
Yahweh his God.
2Ch
27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his
ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and
Judah.
2Ch
27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
2Ch
27:9 Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city
of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.