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2 Chronicles 25:14 (ESV)

Amaziah's Idolatry

14. After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:15 (HCSB)
So the LORD's anger was against Amaziah, and He sent a prophet to him, who said, "Why have you sought a people's gods that could not deliver their own people from your hand?"

 

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2 Chronicles 25:16 (BSB)
While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.”

 

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2 Chronicles 25:17 (ERV)
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.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:18 (RSV)

And Jo′ash the king of Israel sent word to Amazi′ah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife’; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:19 (RSV)

You say, ‘See, I have smitten Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home; why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

 

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2 Chronicles 25:20 (KJV)
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.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:21 (KJV)

So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:22 (KJV)

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:23 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And 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 unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:24 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And [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.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:25 (KJV)
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:26 (RSV)

Now the rest of the deeds of Amazi′ah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?

 

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2 Chronicles 25:27 (RSV)

From the time when he turned away from the Lord they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

 

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2 Chronicles 25:28 (RSV)

And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David.

 

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2 Chronicles 26:1 (NIV)
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

 

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2 Chronicles 26:2 (NIV)

He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.

 

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2 Chronicles 26:3 (NIV)

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jekoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

 

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2 Chronicles 26:4 (KJV)
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

 

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2 Chronicles 26:5 (NIV)

He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. As long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success.