2 Chronicles 25:5–16

⁵Moreover 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 ^cfrom twenty years old and above, and found them ^dthree hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could ^ehandle spear and shield. ⁶He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver. ⁷But there came ^fa 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. ⁸But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God ^gshall make thee fall before the enemy: for ^hGod hath power to help, and to ^gcast down. ⁹And 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. ¹⁰Then 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. ^11*And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and ⁱwent to the valley of salt, and smote of ^kthe children of Seir ten thousand. ¹²And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of ^lthe rock, and cast them down from the top of ^lthe rock, that they all were broken in pieces. ¹³But ^†the soldiers of the army ^mwhich Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, ⁿfell upon the cities of Judah, from ^oSamaria even unto ^pBeth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.

¹⁴Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that ^qhe brought the gods of ^kthe children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them. ¹⁵Wherefore 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, ^rwhich could not deliver their own people out of thine hand? ¹⁶And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; ^swhy shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that ^tGod hath ^†determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.