Amaziah Reigns in Judah

(2 Chronicles 25:1–4)

In the second year of the reign of Jehoash[fn] son of Jehoahaz over Israel, Amaziah son of Joash became king of Judah. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem. 3 And he did [what was] right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David {had done}. He did everything as his father Joash had done.

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Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

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As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king. 6 Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, [but acted] according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded:“Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”[fn]

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Amaziah struck down 10,000 {} Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, [which is] its name to this very day.

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