The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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2 Chronicles 24:21 (ESV)

But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:22 (HCSB)
King Joash didn't remember the kindness that Zechariah's father Jehoiada had extended to him, but killed his son. While he was dying, he said, "May the LORD see and demand an account."

 

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2 Chronicles 24:23 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And it came to pass, when the year was come about, that the army of the Arameans came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:24 (King James 2000 Bible)
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 24:25 (NKJV)

And when they had withdrawn from him (for they left him severely wounded), his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died. And they buried him in the City of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 24:26 (NKJV)

These are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

 

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2 Chronicles 24:27 (HCSB)
Concerning his sons, the many oracles about him, and the restoration of the LORD's temple, they are recorded in the Writing of the Book of the Kings. His son Amaziah became king in his place.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 25:1 (RSV)

Reign of Amaziah

1. Amazi′ah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jeho-ad′dan of Jerusalem.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 25:2 (RSV)

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a blameless heart.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:3 (ERV)
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants which had killed the king his father.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:4 (BSB)
Yet he did not put their sons to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

 

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2 Chronicles 25:5 (King James 2000 Bible)
Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to their fathers' houses, 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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 25:6 (ESV)

He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 25:7 (ESV)

But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel, with all these Ephraimites.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:8 (ERV)
But if thou wilt go, do valiantly, be strong for the battle: God shall cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 25:9 (RSV)

And Amazi′ah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do about the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The Lord is able to give you much more than this.”

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 25:10 (RSV)

Then Amazi′ah discharged the army that had come to him from E′phraim, to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah, and returned home in fierce anger.

 

[Chester]

2 Chronicles 25:11 (NIV)

11 Amaziah then marshaled his strength and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he killed ten thousand men of Seir.

 

[Chester]

2 Chronicles 25:12 (NIV)

12 The army of Judah also captured ten thousand men alive, took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.

(Quite the story!)

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 25:13 (ESV)

But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.