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25 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 And he did uprightly in the Eyes of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
3 And when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed the king (his father).
4 But he did not kill their children, but did as it is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses where the LORD Commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, nor shall the children die for the fathers. But every man shall die for his own sin.”
5 And Amaziah assembled Judah 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 from twenty years old and above and found three hundred thousand chosen men among them to go forth to the war and to handle spear and shield.
6 He also hired a hundred thousand valiant men out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
7 But a man of God came to him, saying, “O king! Do not let the army of Israel go with you! For the LORD is neither with Israel nor with any of the House of Ephraim.
8 “If you must go, then do so. And make yourself strong for the battle. But God shall make you fall before the enemy! For God has power to help and to cast down.”
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, “What shall we do then for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” Then the man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you more than this.”
10 So, Amaziah divided them. And made the army that had come to him out of Ephraim return to their place. Therefore, their wrath was kindled greatly against Judah; and they returned to their places with great anger.
11 Then Amaziah was encouraged and led forth his people and went to the salt valley and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.
12 And the children of Judah took another ten thousand alive and carried them to the top of a rock and cast them down from the top of the rock. And they all burst into pieces.
13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah had sent away, so that they could not go with his people to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth Horon, and struck three thousand of them and took much spoil.
14 Now, after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir and set them up to be his gods and worshipped them and burned incense to them.
15 Therefore, the LORD was angry with Amaziah and sent a Prophet to him, who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of the people which were not able to deliver their own people out of your hand?”
16 And as he talked with him, he said to him, “Have we made you the king’s counselor? Cease! Why should we strike you?” And the Prophet ceased, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not obeyed my counsel.”
17 Then Amaziah, king of Judah, took counsel and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us face one another.”
18 But Joash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ And the wild beast that was in Lebanon went and trampled down the thistle.
19 “You think you have stricken Edom; and your heart lifts you up to brag. Stay at home now. Why do you provoke trouble so that you should fall, and Judah with you?”
20 But Amaziah would not hear. For it was of God, that He might deliver them into his hand because they had sought the gods of Edom.
21 So Joash, the king of Israel, went up. And he and Amaziah, king of Judah, faced one another at Bethshemesh (which is in Judah).
22 And Judah was defeated before Israel. And they fled, every man to his tents.
23 But Joash, the king of Israel, took Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, in Bethshemesh and brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate (four hundred cubits).
24 And he took all the gold and the silver and all the vessels that were found in the House of God with Obed Edom, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and also hostages, and returned to Samaria.
25 And Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived for fifteen years after the death of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
26 Concerning the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?
27 Now after the time that Amaziah turned away from the LORD, they worked treason against him in Jerusalem. And when he fled to Lachish, they sent to Lachish after him, and killed him there.
28 And they brought him upon horses and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
26 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father, Amaziah.
2 He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.
3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
4 And he did uprightly in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah (who understood the visions of God). And when he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
6 For he went forth and fought against the Philistines and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines.
7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gur Baal and Hammeunim.
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah. And his name spread to the entrance of Egypt. For he did most valiantly.
9 Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate and at the valley gate and at the corner and made them strong.
10 And he built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns; for he had many cattle, both in the valleys and plains, and plowmen and dressers of vines in the mountains and in Carmel. For he loved the land.
11 Uzziah also had an army of fighting men who went out to war by bands, according to the count of their number prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the families of the valiant men was two thousand six hundred.
13 And under their hand, the army for war was three hundred seven thousand, and five hundred who fought valiantly to help the king against the enemy.
14 And throughout all the camp, Uzziah prepared shields and spears and helmets and armor and bows and stones to sling.
15 He also made engines in Jerusalem, devised by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far and wide, because God helped him marvelously until he was mighty.
16 But after he became strong, his heart was lifted up, to his destruction. For he transgressed against the LORD his God and went into the Temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the Altar of incense.
17 And Azariah the Priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of the LORD, valiant men.
18 And they stood before Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to offer incense. Go forth from the Sanctuary. For you have transgressed. And you shall have no honor from the LORD God.”
19 Then Uzziah was angry. And he had incense in his hand, to burn it. And while he was angry with the priests, leprosy rose up in his forehead in front of the priests, in the House of the LORD, beside the incense Altar.
20 And when Azariah, the High Priest, looked upon him with all the priests, behold, he was leprous in his forehead. And they had him quickly depart from there. And he was compelled to go out, because the LORD had stricken him.
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper until the day of his death, and dwelt as a leper in a separate house, because he was cut off from the House of the LORD. And Jotham, his son, ruled over the king’s House and judged the people of the land.
22 Concerning the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, wrote Isaiah the Prophet, the son of Amoz.
23 So, Uzziah slept with his fathers. And they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings. For they said, “He is a leper.” And Jotham, his son, reigned in his place.
27 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign and reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
2 And he did uprightly in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did, except that he did not enter into the Temple of the LORD, and the people still corrupted their ways.
3 He built the High Gate of the House of the LORD. And he built very much on the wall of the castle.
4 Moreover, he built cities in the mountains of Judah. And he built palaces and towers in the forests.
5 And he fought with the kings of the children of Ammon and prevailed against them. And the same year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver and ten thousand measures of wheat and ten thousand of barley. This the children of Ammon gave him, both in the second year and the third.
6 So, Jotham became mighty because he directed his way before the LORD his God.
7 Concerning the rest of the acts of Jotham and all his wars and his ways, lo, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
8 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. And Ahaz, his son, reigned in his place.
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