Amaziah’s Campaign against Edom

Then Amaziah gathered Judah and assembled them according to ancestral families,[a] according to commanders of thousands, and according to commanders of hundreds. He numbered those twenty years old or more(A) for all Judah and Benjamin. He found there to be three hundred thousand fit young men who could serve in the army, bearing spear and shield.(B) Then for 7,500 pounds[b] of silver he hired one hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel.

However, a man of God(C) came to him and said, “King, do not let Israel’s army go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel—all the Ephraimites.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:5 Lit house of fathers
  2. 25:6 Lit 100 talents, also in v. 9

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