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Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. See also: 2 Kings 14:1-6He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart. See also: James 4:82 Chronicles 25:14Isaiah 29:13Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. See also: 2 Kings 14:5-222 Chronicles 24:25-26Genesis 9:5-6But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.” See also: Deuteronomy 24:16Ezekiel 18:20Jeremiah 31:29-30Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield. See also: Numbers 1:32 Chronicles 17:14-182 Chronicles 11:1He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver. A man of God came to him, saying, “O king, don’t let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all the children of Ephraim. See also: 2 Chronicles 19:21 Kings 12:28Hosea 5:13-15But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.” See also: 2 Chronicles 14:112 Chronicles 20:6Philippians 4:19Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.” See also: Proverbs 10:22Deuteronomy 8:18Then Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again. Therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger. See also: 2 Samuel 19:431 Kings 12:24Proverbs 29:22Amaziah took courage, and led his people out and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir. See also: 2 Kings 14:7Psalms 60:12 Samuel 8:13The children of Judah carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces. See also: 2 Chronicles 20:101 Chronicles 20:32 Chronicles 21:8-10But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much plunder. See also: 2 Chronicles 8:51 Kings 16:241 Kings 16:29Now after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them and burned incense to them. See also: 2 Chronicles 28:23Exodus 20:3-5Deuteronomy 7:25Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?” See also: Psalms 96:52 Chronicles 25:11-121 Corinthians 10:20As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.” See also: Matthew 21:23Isaiah 46:10Revelation 11:10Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.” See also: 2 Kings 14:8-14Proverbs 20:32 Samuel 2:14Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle. See also: Judges 9:8-15Psalms 80:131 Kings 4:33You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you and Judah with you?’” See also: 2 Chronicles 26:162 Chronicles 32:252 Chronicles 35:21But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom. See also: 1 Kings 12:152 Chronicles 22:7Psalms 81:11-12So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. See also: Joshua 21:161 Samuel 6:91 Samuel 6:19-20Judah was defeated by Israel; so every man fled to his tent. See also: 1 Kings 22:361 Samuel 4:102 Chronicles 28:5-6Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. See also: 2 Chronicles 21:17Nehemiah 8:16Jeremiah 31:38He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in God’s house with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, and the hostages, and returned to Samaria. See also: 1 Chronicles 26:152 Kings 14:142 Chronicles 12:9Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived for fifteen years after the death of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel. See also: 2 Kings 14:17-22Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren’t they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? See also: 2 Chronicles 20:342 Kings 14:15Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. See also: 2 Kings 14:192 Chronicles 24:25Joshua 10:31They brought him on horses and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah. See also: 2 Kings 14:20
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Chronicles 25:2
Ver. 2. Heart, and with perseverance.
↑ 22 Chronicles 25:5
Ver. 5. Families. The officers were well acquainted with their soldiers; (C.) and all were more interested for each other's welfare, (D.) than they are in the present system. C. --- Young. Prot.
"choice men, able to go." H.
↑ 52 Chronicles 25:6
Ver. 6. Thousand. Yet "they were so greatly reduced, but a few years before, that there were....only fifty horsemen," &c. 4 K. xiii. 7. Kennicott --- That might be true, at one time, when the people fled from the king's banners, through fear. But they were still in the country, and God gave Israel a saviour. ib. v. 5.
See C. xiii. 3. and xvii. 19. H. --- Silver. This sum was very small, for so great a multitude. Salien suspects talents of gold are meant, though the soldiers were paid in silver. But the sum was only the hire for a short time; (M.) and was not distributed among the soldiers, who were to live on plunder, but went into the king's coffers, (C.) or belonged to the officers alone. Mariana. D. --- The talent of silver was worth 342 l. 3 s. 9 d. Arbuthnot.
↑ 62 Chronicles 25:8
Ver. 8. And. Heb. "But if thou wilt go, do; be strong; ( he speaks ironically) God," &c. Sept. "if thou thinkest that thou art strong with these, the Lord," &c.
Amasias ought to have known that no dependance was to be placed on Israel, while they despised God. C. xv. 2.
↑ 82 Chronicles 25:9
Ver. 9. What will. Syr. &c. "What then is my crime in having given the," &c. ---
To the. Heb. or,
"for the army." H.
↑ 92 Chronicles 25:12
Ver. 12. Rock, afterwards called Jecteel. Some take it to be Petra. 4 K. xiv. 7.
↑ 122 Chronicles 25:13
Ver. 13. Samaria, the capital, where they had made their complaints to king Joas; and receiving no redress, began to plunder, as far as Bethhoron the lower, which Solomon had repaired, and his successors had retained, though it belonged to the territory of Ephraim. C. xiii. 5. Jos. xviii. 13.
C.
↑ 132 Chronicles 25:16
Ver. 16. Art thou. Heb. adds, "appointed." H. --- The very character of prophet, authorized him to give counsel even to kings. Amasias had perhaps obeyed this prophet, (v. 7) but now his heart was puffed up with victory. --- Kill thee, sixteen years hence.
↑ 162 Chronicles 25:17
Ver. 17. Another, and fight. He supposed Joas had connived at his subjects'
invasion, (v. 13. H.
See 4 K. xiv. 8. C.) and he now required all Israel to submit to him. Josephus. T.
↑ 172 Chronicles 25:18
Ver. 18. Thistle. This fable insinuated how much Joas despised the insolence of his antagonist, (H.) and Amasias had soon reason to repent. T.
↑ 182 Chronicles 25:20
Ver. 20. It. Prot. "it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom." H. --- The king was permitted to give ear to evil counsellors. C. --- "Jupiter deprives those of understanding, whom he means to destroy." Homer
--- The heart is hardened on account of former sins. W.
↑ 202 Chronicles 25:24
Ver. 24. Obededom, whose descendants guarded these treasures. 1 Par. xxvi.
15. C. ---
Hostages. Prot. "the hostages also, and returned to Samaria." H. --- Some think that the kings of Juda had before detained these men. E. --- Others suppose that Joas had taken many nobles, whom he exchanged for their sons. But this is all conjecture. C.
↑ 242 Chronicles 25:28
Ver. 28. David. Heb. "of Juda," contrary to the Sept. Syr. &c. C.
↑ 28License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses