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Chapter 25 Amosiah was twenty and five
years old when he began to reign,

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and he reigned twenty and nine years in
Jerusalem.

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And his mother's name was Jehoadun of
Jerusalem.

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And he did that which was right in the
sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect

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heart.

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Now it came to pass when the kingdom was
established to him that he slew his

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servants that had killed the king his
father.

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But he slew not their children,
but did as it is written in the law in the

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book of Moses, where the Lord commanded,
saying, The fathers shall not die for the

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children, neither shall the children die
for the fathers, but every man shall die

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for his own sin.

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Moreover Amosiah gathered Judah together
and made them captains over thousands and

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captains over hundreds, according to the
houses of their fathers throughout all

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Judah and Benjamin.

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And he numbered them from twenty years old
and above and found them three hundred

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thousand choice men able to go forth to
war that could handle spear and shield.

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He hired also a hundred thousand mighty
men of valor out of Israel for a hundred

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talents of silver.

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But there came a man of God to him,
saying, O king, let not the army of Israel

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go with thee, for the Lord is not with
Israel.

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Do it with all the children of Ephraim.

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But if thou wilt go, do it.

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Be strong for the battle.

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God shall make thee fall before the enemy,
for God hath power to help and to cast

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down.

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And Amosiah said to the man of God,
But what shall we do for the hundred

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talents which I have given to the army of
Israel?

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And the man of God answered, The Lord is
able to give thee much more than this.

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Then Amosiah separated them to wit the
army that was come to him out of Ephraim

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to go home again.

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Wherefore their anger was greatly kindled
against Judah, and they returned home in

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great anger.

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And Amosiah strengthened himself and led
forth his people and went to the valley of

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Saul and smote of the children of Seir ten
thousand.

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And of the ten thousand left alive did the
children of Judah carry away captive and

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brought them unto the top of the rock and
cast them down from the top of the rock

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that they all were broken in pieces.

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But the soldiers of the army which Amosiah
sent back that they should not go with him

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to battle fell upon the cities of Judah
from Samaria even unto Bethhoran and smote

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three thousand of them and took much
spoil.

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Now it came to pass, after that Amosiah
was come from the slaughter of the

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Edomites that he brought the gods of the
children of Seir and set them up to be his

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gods and bowed down himself before them
and burned incense unto them.

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Wherefore the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Amosiah and he sent unto

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him a prophet which said unto him,
Why hast thou sought after the gods of the

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people which could not deliver their own
people out of thine hand?

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And it came to pass, as he talked with
him, that the king said unto him,

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Art thou made of the king's council?

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Forbear, why shouldst thou be smitten?

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Then the prophet forbear and said,
I know that God hath determined to destroy

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thee because thou hast done this and hast
not hearkened unto my counsel.

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Then Amosiah king of Judah took advice and
sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz,

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the son of Jehu king of Israel,
saying, Come, let us see one another in

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the face.

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And Joash king of Israel sent to Amosiah
king of Judah, saying, The thistle that

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was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was
in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to

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my son to wife.

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And there passed by a wild beast that was
in Lebanon and trod down the thistle.

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Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the
Edomites, and thine heart lifteth thee up

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to boast.

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Abide now at home.

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Why shouldst thou meddle to thine hurt?

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That thou shouldst fall, even thou and
Judah with thee?

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But Amosiah would not hear.

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For it came of God that he might deliver
them into the hand of their enemies,

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because they sought after the gods of
Edom.

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So Joash the king of Israel went up,
and they saw one another in the face,

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both he and Amosiah king of Judah,
at Beth Shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

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And Judah was put to the worst before
Israel, and they fled every man to his

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tent.

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And Joash the king of Israel took Amosiah
king of Judah, the son of Joash,

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the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh,
and brought him to Jerusalem, and break

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down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate
of Ephraim to the corner gate,

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four hundred cubits.

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And he took all the gold and the silver,
and all the vessels that were found in the

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house of God with Obed-Edom, and the
treasures of the king's house,

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the hostages also, and returned to
Samaria.

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And Amosiah the son of Joash, king of
Judah, lived after the death of Joash son

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of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen
years.

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Now the rest of the act of Amosiah,
first and last, behold, are they not

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written in the book of the kings of Judah
and Israel?

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Now after the time that Amosiah did turn
away from following the Lord, they made a

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conspiracy against him in Jerusalem,
and he fled to Lachish.

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But they sent to Lachish after him,
and slew him there.

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And they brought him upon horses,
and buried him with his fathers in the

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city of Judah.