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chapter 25
1
Amasias
was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned nine and
twenty years in Jerusalem, the name of his mother was Joadan of Jerusalem.
2 And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord:
but yet not with a perfect heart.
3 And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom,
he put to death the servants that had slain the king his father.
4 But he slew not their children, as it is written in
the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers
shall not be slain for the children, nor the children for their fathers, but
every man shall die for his own sin.
5 Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and
appointed them by families, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all
Juda, and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and
found three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and could
hold the spear and shield.
6 He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant
men, for a hundred talents of silver.
7 But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let
not the army of Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and
all the children of Ephraim:
8 And if thou think that battles consist in the
strength of the army, God will make thee to be overcome by the enemies: for it
belongeth to God both to help, and to put to flight.
9 And Amasias said to the man of God: What will then
become of the hundred talents which I have given to the soldiers of Israeli and
the man of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough to be able to give thee
much more than this.
10 Then Amasias separated the army, that came to him
out of Ephraim, to go home again: but they being much enraged against Juda,
returned to their own country.
11 And Amasias taking courage led forth his people, and
went to the vale of saltpits, and slew of the children of Seir ten thousand.
12 And other ten thousand men the sons of Juda took,
and brought to the steep of a certain rock, and cast them down headlong from
the top, and they all were broken to pieces.
13 But that army which Amasias had sent back, that they
should not go with him to battle, spread themselves among the cities of Juda,
from Samaria to Beth-horon, and having killed three thousand took away much
spoil.
14 But Amasias after he had slain the Edomites, set up
the gods of the children of Seir, which he had brought thence, to be his gods,
and adored them, and burnt incense to them.
15 Wherefore the Lord being angry against Amasias, sent
a prophet to him, to say to him: Why hast thou adored gods that have not
delivered their own people out of thy hand?
16 And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art
thou the king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet
departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done
this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.
17 Then Amasias king of Juda taking very bad counsel,
sent to Joas the son of Joachaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come,
let us see one another.
18 But he sent back the messengers, saying: The thistle
that is in Libanus, sent to the cedar in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to
my son to wife: and behold the beasts that were in the wood of Libanus passed
by, and trod down the thistle.
19 Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom, and
therefore thy heart is lifted up with pride : stay at home, why dost thou
provoke evil against thee, that both thou shouldst fall and Juda with thee.
20 Amasias would not hearken to him, because it was the
Lord's will that he should be delivered into the hands of enemies, because of
the gods of Edom.
21 So Joas king of Israel went up, and they presented
themselves to be seen by one another: and Amasias king of Juda was in Bethsames
of Juda:
22 And Juda fell before Israel and they fled to their
dwellings.
23 And Joas king of Israel took Amasias king of Juda,
the son of Joas, the son Joachaz, in Bethsames, and brought him to Jerusalem:
and broke down the walls thereof from the gate of Ephraim, to the gate of the
corner, four hundred cubits.
24 And he took all the gold, and silver, and all the
vessels, that he found in the house of God, and with Obededom, and in the
treasures of the king's house, moreover also the sons of the hostages, he
brought back to Samaria.
25 And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda lived,
after the death of Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, fifteen years.
26 Now the rest of the acts of Amasias, the first and
last, are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
27 And after he revolted from the Lord, they made a
conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled into Lachis, and they sent,
and killed him there.
28 And they brought him back upon horses, and buried
him with his fathers in the city of David.
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