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25 Amatsyah was twenty-five when he became Yehudah’s king, and he reigned from Yerushalem for twenty-nine years. His mother was Yehoaddin from Yerushalem. 2 He mostly followed Yahweh’s instructions, but not whole-heartedly.
3 Once his rule was established, he killed those of his servants who had assassinated his father Yoash. 4 However, he didn’t order their sons to be executed because he obeyed Yahweh’s instructions that had been written down by Mosheh (Moses), “Fathers mustn’t die because of what their sons did, and sons mustn’t die because of what their parents did, but each individual should be punished for their own disobedience.”[ref]
5 Then Amatsyah summoned Yehudah’s men and appointed some by their clans to be leaders of hundreds and of thousands, for all of Yehudah and Benyamin. They counted three-hundred thousand men who were twenty and over, and suitable for fighting with a spear and shield. 6 He also hired one-hundred thousand powerful warriors from Yisrael for three tonnes of silver.
7 However, a man of God came and told him, “Your majesty, don’t let Yisrael’s soldiers go with you, because Yahweh isn’t with Yisrael—those Efrayimites.[fn] 8 Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will cause you to be defeated by the enemy, because God has the power to help and the power to overthrow.”
9 “So what should I do about all the silver that I’ve already paid to the troops from Yisrael?” Amatsyah asked.
“Yahweh can do much more for you than that,” God’s man replied.
10 So King Amatsyah dismissed the troops from Yisrael to go home again, but they were extremely angry with Yehudah, and they got home still feeling furious.
11 Then Amatsyah took courage and led his army out to the Salt Valley where they slaughtered ten thousand Edomite soldiers. 12 Yehudah rounded up another ten thousand and herded them to the top of a cliff where they drove them over to kill them.
13 However, during that time, the warriors that Amatsyah had sent back to Yisrael, raided Yehudah’s cities all the way from Shomron (Samaria) to Beyt-Horon. They’d killed three thousand people and taken back a large amount of plunder.
25:7 The northern kingdom of Yisrael also came to be known as ‘Efrayim’ (similar how the area of the tribes of Yehudah and Benyamin (plus others who moved in—see 11:16) became known as ‘Yehudah’).
2 He was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem for twenty-nine years. (His mother’s name was Yehoaddan from Yerushalem.) 3 He did what Yahweh had said was correct behaviour, although not as thoroughly as his ancestor David—his behaviour was more like that of his father Yoash. 4 However, the hilltop shrines weren’t removed—people were still sacrificing and burning incense at them.
5 Once he was firmly established as king, Amatsyah had the servants executed who had assassinated his father Yoash,[ref] 6 but he didn’t have their sons executed, because in the scroll where Mosheh had written the laws, Yahweh had commanded, “Fathers shouldn’t be executed for what their sons do, nor should sons be executed for the crimes of their ancestors—rather an individual should only be executed for their own crime.”