II Chronicles 25 · דברי הימים ב

Amażyahu was twenty five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty nine years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Yeho῾addan of Yerushalayim.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants who had killed the king his father.

But he did not slay their children, but did as it is written in the Tora, in the book of Moshe, where the Lord commanded, saying, Fathers shall not die for children, nor shall children die for fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

Moreover Amażyahu gathered Yehuda together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Yehuda and Binyamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go out to war, that could handle spear and shield.

He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men at arms out of Yisra᾽el for a hundred talents of silver.

But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Yisra᾽el go with thee; for the Lord is not with Yisra᾽el, with all these children of Efrayim.

But if thou wilt go, and even if thou engage valiantly in the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God has power to help, and to cast down.

And Amażyahu said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Yisra᾽el? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.

Then Amażyahu separated them, namely that army that was come to him out of Efrayim, and bade them go home again: so that their anger burned strongly against Yehuda, and they returned home in great anger.

And Amażyahu strengthened himself, and led his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote ten thousand of the children of Se῾ir.

And another ten thousand did the children of Yehuda carry away alive captive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and they cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.

But the soldiers of the army which Amażyahu sent back, so that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Yehuda, from Shomeron as far as Bet-ĥoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.

Now it came to pass, after Amażyahu was come from the slaughter of the Adomim, that he brought the gods of the children of Se῾ir, and set them up to be his gods, and prostrated himself before them, and burned incense to them.

So that the anger of the Lord burned against Amażyahu, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, who could not deliver their own people out of thy hand?

And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Have we made thee of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldst thou be smitten? Then the prophet ceased, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.

Then Amażyahu king of Yehuda took advice, and sent to Yo᾽ash, the son of Yeho᾽aĥaz, the son of Yehu, king of Yisra᾽el, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.

And Yo᾽ash king of Yisra᾽el sent to Amażyahu king of Yehuda, saying, The thistle that was in the Levanon sent to the cedar that was in the Levanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in the Levanon, and trampled down the thistle.

Thou sayst, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and thy heart has lifted thee up to boast: stay now at home; why shouldst thou meddle with evil, that thou shouldst fall, thou, and Yehuda with thee?

But Amażyahu would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.

So Yo᾽ash the king of Yisra᾽el went up; so they looked one another in the face, both he and Amażyahu king of Yehuda, at Bet-shemesh, which belongs to Yehuda.

And Yehuda was beaten before Yisra᾽el, and they fled every man to his tent.

And Yo᾽ash the king of Yisra᾽el took Amażyahu king of Yehuda, the son of Yo᾽ash, the son of Yeho᾽aĥaz, at Bet-shemesh, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the gate of Efrayim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with ῾Oved-edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, together with the hostages, and returned to Shomeron.

And Amażyahu the son of Yo᾽ash king of Yehuda lived after the death of Yo᾽ash son of Yeho᾽aĥaz king of Yisra᾽el fifteen years.

Now the rest of the acts of Amażyahu, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Yehuda and Yisra᾽el?

Now after the time that Amażyahu turned away from following the Lord they made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim; and he fled to Lakhish: but they sent to Lakhish after him, and slew him there.

And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Yehuda.