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2 Crónicas 25
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Reinado de Amasías

25 (A)Amasías tenía veinticinco años cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó veintinueve años en Jerusalén. El nombre de su madre era Joadán, de Jerusalén. 2 Amasías hizo lo recto ante los ojos del Señor, aunque no de todo corazón(B). 3 Y una vez afianzado el reino en su mano[a], mató a los siervos suyos que habían asesinado[b] al rey su padre(C). 4 Pero a sus hijos no les dio muerte, sino que hizo conforme a lo que está escrito en la ley en el libro de Moisés, tal como el Señor ordenó: «No se dará muerte a los padres por culpa de los hijos, ni se dará muerte a los hijos por culpa de los padres, sino que a cada uno se le dará muerte por su propio pecado(D)».

5 Además, Amasías reunió a Judá, y conforme a sus casas paternas los puso bajo capitanes de miles y capitanes de cientos por todo Judá y Benjamín. Hizo un censo de[c] los de veinte años arriba(E), y halló 300,000 hombres escogidos(F), hábiles para ir a la guerra y para manejar lanza y escudo. 6 También tomó a sueldo a 100,000 guerreros valientes de Israel por 3.4 toneladas de plata. 7 Pero un hombre de Dios vino a Amasías(G) y le dijo: «Oh rey, no permita que el ejército de Israel vaya con usted, porque el Señor no está con Israel ni con ninguno de los hijos de Efraín. 8 Pero si usted va, hágalo, esfuércese para la batalla; sin embargo, Dios lo derribará[d] delante del enemigo, porque Dios tiene poder para ayudar y para derribar(H)». 9 Amasías dijo al hombre de Dios: «¿Y qué debo hacer con las 3.4 toneladas que he dado a las tropas de Israel?». «El Señor tiene mucho más que darle que esto(I)», respondió el hombre de Dios. 10 Entonces Amasías despidió[e] las tropas que vinieron a él de Efraín, para que se fueran a sus casas[f]. Porque se encendió en gran manera la ira de ellos contra Judá, así que regresaron a sus casas[g] ardiendo en ira.

11 Amasías se fortaleció, y al frente de su pueblo fue al valle de la Sal y mató a 10,000 de los hijos de Seir(J). 12 También los hijos de Judá capturaron vivos a 10,000 y los llevaron a la cumbre de la peña, los echaron abajo desde la cumbre de la peña y todos fueron despedazados. 13 Pero las tropas[h] que Amasías había hecho volver para que no fueran con él a la batalla, saquearon las ciudades de Judá desde Samaria hasta Bet Horón, mataron a 3,000 de ellos y tomaron mucho botín.

14 Después que Amasías regresó de la matanza de los edomitas, trajo los dioses de los hijos de Seir y los puso como sus dioses(K), se postró delante de ellos y les quemó incienso. 15 Entonces se encendió la ira del Señor contra Amasías, y le envió un profeta que le dijo: «¿Por qué has buscado a los dioses de otro pueblo que no pudieron librar a su propio pueblo de tu mano(L)?». 16 Y mientras el profeta hablaba con él, el rey le dijo: «¿Acaso te hemos constituido consejero real? Detente. ¿Por qué buscas que te maten[i]?». Entonces el profeta se detuvo, y dijo: «Yo sé que Dios ha determinado destruirte, porque has hecho esto y no has escuchado mi consejo».

17 (M)Entonces Amasías, rey de Judá, tomó consejo y envió mensajeros a Joás, hijo de Joacaz, hijo de Jehú, rey de Israel, y le dijeron: «Ven, veámonos cara a cara[j]». 18 Joás, rey de Israel, envió este mensaje a Amasías, rey de Judá: «El cardo que estaba en el Líbano, envió a decir al cedro que estaba en el Líbano: “Da a tu hija por mujer a mi hijo”. Pero pasó una fiera que estaba en el Líbano, y pisoteó el cardo(N). 19 Tú dijiste: “He[k] derrotado[l] a Edom”; y tu corazón se ha envanecido[m] para gloriarte. Quédate ahora en tu casa; ¿por qué quieres provocar el mal, de modo que caigas tú y Judá contigo(O)?».

20 Pero Amasías no quiso escuchar, porque esto venía de Dios, para entregarlo en mano de Joás, porque había buscado los dioses de Edom. 21 Subió Joás, rey de Israel, y él y Amasías, rey de Judá, se enfrentaron en Bet Semes, que pertenece a Judá. 22 Y Judá fue derrotado por[n] Israel, y huyeron, cada uno a su tienda. 23 Entonces Joás, rey de Israel, capturó en Bet Semes a Amasías, rey de Judá, hijo de Joás, hijo de Joacaz(P), y lo llevó a Jerusalén; y derribó la muralla de Jerusalén desde la puerta de Efraín hasta la puerta del Ángulo, 400 codos (180 metros). 24 Joás tomó todo el oro y la plata, todos los utensilios que se encontraban con Obed Edom(Q) en la casa de Dios, los tesoros de la casa del rey y también los rehenes, y se volvió a Samaria.

25 (R)Y Amasías, hijo de Joás, rey de Judá, vivió quince años después de la muerte de Joás, hijo de Joacaz, rey de Israel. 26 Los demás hechos de Amasías, desde el primero hasta el postrero, ¿no están escritos en el libro de los reyes de Judá y de Israel? 27 Desde el día en que Amasías se apartó de seguir al Señor, conspiraron contra él en Jerusalén, y él huyó a Laquis; pero lo persiguieron hasta Laquis y allí lo mataron. 28 Lo trajeron en caballos y lo sepultaron con sus padres en la ciudad de David[o].

Footnotes

  1. 25:3 Lit. firme sobre él.
  2. 25:3 Lit. herido.
  3. 25:5 Lit. alistó a.
  4. 25:8 Lit. hará tropezar.
  5. 25:10 Lit. separó.
  6. 25:10 Lit. a su propio lugar.
  7. 25:10 Lit. a su propio lugar.
  8. 25:13 Lit. los hijos de las tropas.
  9. 25:16 Lit. hieran.
  10. 25:17 Lit. las caras.
  11. 25:19 Así en algunas versiones antiguas; en el T.M., Has.
  12. 25:19 Lit. herido.
  13. 25:19 Lit. te ha levantado.
  14. 25:22 Lit. delante de.
  15. 25:28 Así en 2Rey. 14:20, y en varios mss. y versiones antiguas; en el T.M., Judá.
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2 Chronicles 25
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King Amaziah

25 1-4 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king and reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jehoaddin from Jerusalem. He lived well before God, doing the right thing for the most part. But he wasn’t wholeheartedly devoted to God. When he had the affairs of the kingdom well in hand, he executed the palace guard who had assassinated his father the king. But he didn’t kill the sons of the assassins—he was mindful of what God commanded in The Revelation of Moses, that parents shouldn’t be executed for their children’s sins, nor children for their parents’. We each pay personally for our sins.

5-6 Amaziah organized Judah and sorted out Judah and Benjamin by families and by military units. Men twenty years and older had to register—they ended up with 300,000 judged capable of military service. In addition he hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel in the north at a cost of about four and a half tons of silver.

7-8 A holy man showed up and said, “No, O King—don’t let those northern Israelite soldiers into your army; God is not on their side, nor with any of the Ephraimites. Instead, you go by yourself and be strong. God and God only has the power to help or hurt your cause.”

9 But Amaziah said to the holy man, “But what about all this money—these tons of silver I have already paid out to hire these men?”

“God’s help is worth far more to you than that,” said the holy man.

10 So Amaziah fired the soldiers he had hired from the north and sent them home. They were very angry at losing their jobs and went home seething.

11-12 But Amaziah was optimistic. He led his troops into the Valley of Salt and killed ten thousand men of Seir. They took another ten thousand as prisoners, led them to the top of the Rock, and pushed them off a cliff. They all died in the fall, smashed on the rocks.

13 But the troops Amaziah had dismissed from his army, angry over their lost opportunity for plunder, rampaged through the towns of Judah all the way from Samaria to Beth Horon, killing three thousand people and taking much plunder.

14-15 On his return from the destruction of the Edomites, Amaziah brought back the gods of the men of Seir and installed them as his own gods, worshiping them and burning incense to them. That ignited God’s anger; a fiery blast of God’s wrath put into words by a God-sent prophet: “What is this? Why on earth would you pray to inferior gods who couldn’t so much as help their own people from you—gods weaker than Amaziah?”

16 Amaziah interrupted him, “Did I ask for your opinion? Shut up or get thrown out!”

The prophet quit speaking, but not before he got in one last word: “I have it on good authority: God has made up his mind to throw you out because of what you’ve done, and because you wouldn’t listen to me.”

* * *

17 One day Amaziah sent envoys to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, challenging him to a fight: “Come and meet with me, I dare you. Let’s have it out face-to-face!”

18-19 Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah, “One day a thistle in Lebanon sent word to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ But then a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and stepped on the thistle, crushing it. Just because you’ve defeated Edom in battle, you now think you’re a big shot. Go ahead and be proud, but stay home. Why press your luck? Why bring defeat on yourself and Judah?”

20-22 Amaziah wouldn’t take no for an answer—God had already decided to let Jehoash defeat him because he had defected to the gods of Edom. So Jehoash king of Israel came on ahead and confronted Amaziah king of Judah. They met at Beth Shemesh, a town of Judah. Judah was thoroughly beaten by Israel—all the soldiers straggled home in defeat.

23-24 Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. But Jehoash didn’t stop at that; he went on to attack Jerusalem. He demolished the Wall of Jerusalem all the way from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a stretch of about six hundred feet. He looted the gold, silver, and furnishings—anything he found that was worth taking—from both the palace and The Temple of God—and, for good measure, he took hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.

25-26 Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah continued as king fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. The rest of the life and times of Amaziah from start to finish is written in the Royal Annals of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

27-28 During those last days, after Amaziah had defected from God, they cooked up a plot against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he had to flee to Lachish. But they tracked him down in Lachish and killed him there. They brought him back on horseback and buried him in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the City of David.

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Amaziah King of Judah(A)(B)(C)

25 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly.(D) 3 After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. 4 Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses,(E) where the Lord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[a](F)

5 Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered(G) those twenty years old(H) or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men fit for military service,(I) able to handle the spear and shield. 6 He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents[b] of silver.

7 But a man of God came to him and said, “Your Majesty, these troops from Israel(J) must not march with you, for the Lord is not with Israel—not with any of the people of Ephraim. 8 Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.”(K)

9 Amaziah asked the man of God, “But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?”

The man of God replied, “The Lord can give you much more than that.”(L)

10 So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were furious with Judah and left for home in a great rage.(M)

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

13 Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had sent back and had not allowed to take part in the war raided towns belonging to Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and carried off great quantities of plunder.

14 When Amaziah returned from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir. He set them up as his own gods,(O) bowed down to them and burned sacrifices to them. 15 The anger of the Lord burned against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you consult this people’s gods, which could not save(P) their own people from your hand?”

16 While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?”

So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

17 After Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, he sent this challenge to Jehoash[c] son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel: “Come, let us face each other in battle.”

18 But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle(Q) in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot. 19 You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”

20 Amaziah, however, would not listen, for God so worked that he might deliver them into the hands of Jehoash, because they sought the gods of Edom.(R) 21 So Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah. 22 Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home. 23 Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,[d] at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate(S) to the Corner Gate(T)—a section about four hundred cubits[e] long. 24 He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of God that had been in the care of Obed-Edom,(U) together with the palace treasures and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.

25 Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. 26 As for the other events of Amaziah’s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? 27 From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the Lord, they conspired against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish(V), but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there. 28 He was brought back by horse and was buried with his ancestors in the City of Judah.[f]

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 25:4 Deut. 24:16
  2. 2 Chronicles 25:6 That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons; also in verse 9
  3. 2 Chronicles 25:17 Hebrew Joash, a variant of Jehoash; also in verses 18, 21, 23 and 25
  4. 2 Chronicles 25:23 Hebrew Jehoahaz, a variant of Ahaziah
  5. 2 Chronicles 25:23 That is, about 600 feet or about 180 meters
  6. 2 Chronicles 25:28 Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 14:20) David
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