¹⁰ Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah and returned home in fierce anger.

²⁴ ‘Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, ^(A)for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the word of the Lord and went home again, according to the word of the Lord.

⁴³ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ^(A)ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?” ^(B)But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.