Amaziah reigned for twenty-nine years. He killed his servants who killed his father. Amaziah hired 100,000 men from Israel to fight for Judah. A man of God told him not to take the men of Israel with them. Those men raided Judah while Judah was in a battle. Amaziah began to worship other gods. Israel defeated Judah and Amaziah fled. He was later captured and put to death. His son Uzziah was made king of Judah. He reigned for fifty-two years and followed the Lord. The Lord allowed him to prosper. He became unfaithful to God and was leprous for the remainder of his life. He died and his son Jotham reigned in his place. He was faithful to God. Jotham reigned for sixteen years, died, then his son Ahaz reigned in his place.
Bible Reading Plan
Day 205 - Read 2 Chronicles 25-27
10. Hello and welcome to our daily Bible reading. Today we are looking at 2 Chronicles 25-27. Amaziah reigned for 29 years. He killed his servants who killed his father. Amaziah hired 100,000 men from Israel to fight for Judah. A man of God told him not to take the men of Israel with him. Those men raided Judah while Judah was in a battle. Amaziah began to worship other gods. Israel defeated Judah and Amaziah fled. He was later captured and put to death. His son, Josiah, was made king of Judah. He reigned for 52 years and followed the Lord. The Lord allowed him to prosper. He became unfaithful to God and was leperous for the remainder of his life. He died and his son, Jotham, reigned in his place. He was faithful to God. Jotham reigned for 16 years, died, then his son, A, has reigned in his place. Follow along with me as I begin to read 2 Chronicles 25-25 starting in verse 1. Amaziah was 25 years old when he began to reign and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoadan of Jerusalem. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord yet not with a whole heart. And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king, his father. But he did not put their children to death. According to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each will die for his own sin. Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers' houses under the commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward and found that they were three hundred thousand choice men fit for war, able to handle spear and shield. He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for one hundred talents of silver. But a man of God came to him and said, O King, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel, with all these ephraimites. But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy, for God has power to help or to cast down? And Amaziah said to the man of God, but what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel? The men of God answered, "The Lord is able to give you much more than this." 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. But Amaziah took courage and let out his people and went to the valley of salt and struck down ten thousand men of seer. The men of Judah captured another ten thousand alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces. But the men of the army, whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah from the Samaria to Beth Horan and struck down three thousand people in them and took much spool. After Amaziah came from striking down the ephraimites, he brought the gods of the men of seer and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them. Therefore the Lord was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet who said to him, "Why have you sought the gods of a people who did not deliver their own people from your hand?" But as he was speaking, the king said to him, "Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop. Why should you 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." Then Amaziah, king of Judah, took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehuahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face." And Joash, the king of Israel, sent word to Amaziah, king of Judah. A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, "Give your daughter to my son for a wife, and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle. You say, 'See, I have struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you? But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, an order that he might give them into the hand of their enemy, because they had sought the gods of Edom." So Joash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, faced one another in battle at Beth Shemash, which belongs to Judah. And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home. And Joash, king of Israel, captured Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Aaziah at Beth Shemash, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for 400 cubits, from the Ephraim gate to the corner gate. And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, in the care of Odom Edom. He seized also the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria. Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived 15 years after the death of Joash, the son of Jehovah has, king of Israel. Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, from first to last, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? From the time when he turned away from the Lord, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lakeish. But they sinned after him to Lakeish, and put him to death there, and they brought him upon horses, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David. Chapter 26 And all the people of Judah took Josiah, who was 16 years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers. Josiah was 16 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jackaliah of Jerusalem, and he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father, Amaziah, had done. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper. He went out, and made war against the Philistines, and broke through the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabna, and the wall of Ashtad, and he built cities in the territory of Ashtad, and elsewhere among the Philistines. God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, who lived in Gerbeil, and against the Miunites. The Ammonites paid tribute to Josiah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong. Moreover, Josiah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the angle, and fortified them. And he built towers in the wilderness, and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephala and in the plain, and he had farmers and vine dressers in the hills, and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soul. Moreover, Josiah had an army of soldiers fit for war in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jael, the secretary, and may I see the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king's commanders. The whole number of the heads of fathers houses of mighty men of Valor was 2,600. Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy, and Josiah prepared for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging. In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers in the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord, his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. But as a ride, the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord, who were men of Valor, and they was stood king Josiah and said to him, "It is not for you, Josiah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the son of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God." Then Josiah was angry. Now he had a censor in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priest in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense. And as a ride, the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leperous in his forehead. And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him. And King Josiah was leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. And Josiah, his son, was over the king's household, governing the people of the land. The rest of the acts of Josiah, from first to last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos, wrote. And Josiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers, in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, he is a leper. And Josiah, his son, reigned in his place. Chapter 27. Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusalem, the daughter of Zadod. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord according to all that his father, Josiah, had done, except he did not enter the temple of the Lord. But the people still followed corrupt practices. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord and did much building on the wall of Ophel. Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills. He fought with the kings of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year, one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cores of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years. So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God. Now the rest of the Acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and a has his son reigned in his place.