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2 Chronicles 25:5-10

King James Version (KJV)

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5. Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield. 6. He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver. 7. But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim. 8. But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down. 9. And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this. 10. Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.

2 Chronicles 25:5-10 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 2 Chronicles 25:5

Theological / Devotional

Gathered Judah together. Verses 5-13 discuss the military strength of the nation and an attack on Edom. For the most part this section is peculiar to Chronicles. In Kings the record of war with Edom constitutes a single verse (2 Kings 14:7).

Three hundred thousand. Compare this number with the total under Jehoshaphat (ch. 17:14-18), of probably 580,000 (see on ch. 17:14), and the 580,000 warriors of Asa (ch. 14:8). Undoubtedly the manpower of the nation had greatly declined during the disastrous wars of Jehoram and Joash (see chs. 21:8, 16; 24:23, 24).

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