Amaziah's Victories

2 Chronicles 25

⁵ Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those _l twenty years old and upward, and found that they were _m 300,000 choice men, fit for war, _n able to handle spear and shield. ⁶ He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents ₁ of silver. ⁷ But _o a man of God came to him and said, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel, with all these Ephraimites. ⁸ But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? _p For God has power to help or to cast down." ⁹ And Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "The Lord is able to give you much more than this." ¹⁰ Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah and returned home in fierce anger. ¹¹ But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the _q Valley of Salt and struck down _r 10,000 men of Seir. ¹² The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces. ¹³ But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, _s from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.

1. Cross References
   Numbers 1:3
   From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 11:1
   When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
   2 Chronicles 13:3
   Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. And Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with 800,000 chosen mighty warriors.
   2 Chronicles 17:14 - 18
   This was the muster of them by fathers' houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with 300,000 mighty men of valor.
   2 Chronicles 26:13
   Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Chronicles 12:8
   From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:
   
4. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 33:1
   This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 20:6
   And said, "O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Kings 14:7
   He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.
   
7. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 20:10
   And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy -
   
8. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 15:8
   As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord.
   2 Chronicles 19:4
   Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem. And he went out again among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.