1 Vyf en twintig jaar oud, het Am sia koning geword, en hy het nege en twintig jaar in Jerusalem geregeer; en die naam van sy moeder was Jo ddan, van Jerusalem.
2 En hy het gedoen wat reg was in die oë van die HERE, maar nie met 'n volkome hart nie.
3 En toe die koninklike mag in sy besit was, het hy sy dienaars, die moordenaars van sy vader, die koning, gedood;
4 hulle kinders ewenwel het hy nie gedood nie, maar gedoen soos geskrywe is in die wet, in die boek van Moses, waar die HERE dit beveel het: Die vaders moet nie vir die kinders sterwe, en die kinders moet nie vir die vaders sterwe nie; maar hulle moet elkeen vir sy eie sonde sterwe.
5 En Am sia het Juda bymekaar laat kom en hulle opgestel volgens die families, volgens die owerstes oor duisend en volgens die owerstes oor honderd, die hele Juda en Benjamin, en hy het hulle gemonster van twintig jaar oud en daarbo, en bevind dat hulle drie honderd duisend uitgesoektes was wat op kommando moes uittrek, wat spies en skild hanteer.
6 Ook het hy uit Israel honderd duisend dapper helde vir honderd talente silwer gehuur.
7 Toe kom daar 'n man van God na hom en sê: o Koning, laat die kommando van Israel nie saam met u gaan nie, want die HERE is nie met Israel, met al die kinders van Efraim nie.
8 Maar gaan u alleen, tree moedig op in die geveg; God sal u laat val voor die vyand; want by God is krag om te help of te laat val.
9 Maar Am sia sê aan die man van God: En wat moet met die honderd talente gemaak word wat ek aan die troepe van Israel gegee het? En die man van God antwoord: Die HERE kan u baie meer gee as dit.
10 Toe het Am sia hulle afgesonder, naamlik die troepe wat uit Efraim na hom gekom het, om na hulle woonplek te trek; maar hulle het baie kwaad geword vir Juda en teruggegaan na hulle woonplek in gloeiende toorn.
11 Maar Am sia het moed geskep en sy manskappe aangevoer en die Soutdal ingetrek en die kinders van Se‹r, tien duisend, verslaan.
12 En tien duisend het die kinders van Juda lewendig as gevangenes weggevoer en hulle op die top van die krans gebring en hulle van die top van die krans afgegooi, sodat hulle almal verpletter is.
13 Maar die manskappe van die troepe wat Am sia laat teruggaan het om nie saam met hom in die oorlog te trek nie, het 'n plundertog onderneem in die stede van Juda, van Samar¡a af tot by Bet-Horon, en drie duisend van hulle verslaan en baie buit geroof.
14 En nadat Am sia tuisgekom het van die verslaan van die Edomiete, het hy die gode van die kinders van Se‹r gebring en hulle vir hom as gode opgestel en hom voor hulle neergebuig en vir hulle offerrook laat opgaan.
15 Toe ontvlam die toorn van die HERE teen Am sia, en Hy stuur 'n profeet na hom, en die het vir hom gesê: Waarom soek u die gode van die volk wat hulle eie volk nie uit u hand gered het nie?
16 En terwyl hy met hom spreek, sê hy vir hom: Het ons jou as raadgewer van die koning aangestel? Hou op, waarom sal hulle jou doodmaak? Toe hou die profeet op en sê: Ek merk dat God besluit het om u te vernietig, omdat u dit gedoen het en nie na my raad geluister het nie.
17 En Am sia, die koning van Juda, het n raadpleging gestuur na Joas, die seun van Joahas, die seun van Jehu, die koning van Israel, om te sê: Kom, laat ons mekaar se aangesig sien.
18 Maar Joas, die koning van Israel, het Am sia, die koning van Juda, d¡t laat weet: Die distel wat op die L¡banon is, het die seder wat op die L¡banon is, laat weet: Gee jou dogter aan my seun as vrou! Maar die diere van die veld wat op die L¡banon is, het verbygegaan en die distel vertrap.
19 U dink u het die Edomiete verslaan, daarom is u hart hoogmoedig om eer te verwerwe. Bly nou tuis! Waarom wil u u in die ongeluk stort, sodat u sou val, u en Juda saam met u?
20 Maar Am sia het nie geluister nie; want dit was van God beskik om hulle uit te lewer, omdat hulle die gode van Edom gesoek het.
21 Toe trek Joas, die koning van Israel, op; en hulle het mekaar se aangesig gesien, hy en Am sia, die koning van Juda, by Bet-Semes wat aan Juda behoort.
22 En Juda is voor Israel verslaan, en hulle het gevlug, elkeen na sy tente toe.
23 En Joas, die koning van Israel, het Am sia, die koning van Juda, die seun van Joas, die seun van Joahas, by Bet-Semes gevang en hom na Jerusalem gebring en vier honderd el van die muur van Jerusalem afgebreek, van die Efraimspoort af tot by die Hoekpoort.
24 En hy het al die goud en die silwer geneem en al die voorwerpe wat in die huis van God by Obed-Edom te vinde was, en die skatte van die huis van die koning en ook die gyselaars, en omgedraai na Samar¡a toe.
25 En Am sia, die seun van Joas, die koning van Juda, het n die dood van Joas, die seun van Joahas, die koning van Israel, vyftien jaar gelewe.
26 En die verdere geskiedenis van Am sia, die vroeëre en die latere, kyk, is dit nie beskrywe in die Boek van die konings van Juda en Israel nie?
27 En van die tyd af dat Am sia van die HERE afvallig geword het, het hulle 'n sameswering teen hom gesmee in Jerusalem, sodat hy na Lagis gevlug het; maar hulle het agter hom aangestuur na Lagis en hom daar gedood.
28 En hulle het hom op perde vervoer en hom by sy vaders begrawe in die stad van Dawid.
29 die twee en twintigste vir Gidd lti; sy seuns en sy broers, twaalf;
30 die drie en twintigste vir Mah siot; sy seuns en sy broers, twaalf;
31 die vier en twintigste vir Rom mti-Eser; sy seuns en sy broers, twaalf.
1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.
3 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.
4 But he did not put their children to death, for he kept the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses, saying, The fathers are not to be put to death for their children or the children for their fathers, but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.
5 Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover.
6 And for a hundred talents of silver, he got a hundred thousand fighting-men from Israel.
7 But a man of God came to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with you; for the Lord is not with Israel, that is, the children of Ephraim.
8 But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.
9 Then Amaziah said to the man of God, But what is to be done about the hundred talents which I have given for the armed band of Israel? And the man of God in answer said, God is able to give you much more than this.
10 So Amaziah, separating the armed band which had come to him from Ephraim, sent them back again; which made them very angry with Judah, and they went back burning with wrath.
11 Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir;
12 And ten thousand more the children of Israel took living, and made them go up to the top of the rock, pushing them down from the top of the rock so that their bodies were broken by the fall.
13 But the men of the band which Amaziah sent back and did not take with him to the fight, made attacks on the towns of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, putting to death three thousand of their people and taking away a great store of their goods.
14 Now when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.
15 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you gone after the gods of the people who have not given their people salvation from your hands?
16 But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.
17 Then Amaziah, king of Judah, acting on the suggestion of his servants, sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.
18 And Joash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.
19 You say, See, I have overcome Edom; and your heart is lifted up with pride: now keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
20 But Amaziah gave no attention; and this was the purpose of God, so that he might give them up into the hands of Joash, because they had gone after the gods of Edom.
21 And so Joash, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
22 And Judah was overcome before Israel, and they went in flight, every man to his tent.
23 And Joash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and took him to Jerusalem; and he had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the doorway in the angle, four hundred cubits.
24 And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord, under the care of Obed-edom, and all the wealth from the king's house, as well as those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria.
25 Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, are they not recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
27 Now from the time when Amaziah gave up worshipping the Lord, they made secret designs against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him and put him to death there.
28 And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in the town of David.