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When a year had gone by, the Aramaean army made war on Joash. They reached Judah and Jerusalem, and killed all the officials among the people, sending back to the king of Damascus all that they had plundered from them. (2 Chronicles 24, 23)
Though the Aramaean army was small, Yahweh delivered into its power an army of great size for they had abandoned him, the God of their ancestors. (2 Chronicles 24, 24)
The Aramaeans wounded Joash and when they withdrew they left him a very sick man; and his officers, plotting against him to avenge the death of the son of Jehoiada the priest, murdered him in his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the City of David, though not in the tombs of the king. (2 Chronicles 24, 25)
As soon as he was firmly in power, he killed those of his officers who had murdered the king his father. (2 Chronicles 25, 3)
But he did not put their sons to death, in obedience to what is written in the Law, in the book of Moses, where Yahweh has ordered, "Fathers must not be put to death for sons, nor sons for fathers; but everyone will pay for his own crime." (2 Chronicles 25, 4)
Amaziah called the men of Judah together and organized them in families with commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those who were twenty years old or older, and found there were three hundred thousand of selected warriors fit for military service, and for handling spear and shield. (2 Chronicles 25, 5)
Next, he enrolled one hundred thousand from Israel as mercenaries, for about four tons of silver. (2 Chronicles 25, 6)
Amaziah answered the man of God, "And what about the four tons of silver I have given the Israelite soldiers?" The man of God replied, "Yahweh can give you far more than that." (2 Chronicles 25, 9)
Then the Israelite troops which Amaziah had dismissed and not allowed to fight with him raided the towns of Judah, from Samaria as far as Bethhoron, but they were defeated by a troop of three thousand men who recovered great quantities of plunder. (2 Chronicles 25, 13)
The king of Judah, Amaziah son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, was taken prisoner at Bethshemesh by Joash, king of Israel who led him off to Jerusalem, where Joash tore down the city wall from the Gate of Ephraim to the Gate of the Corner, a distance of two hundred yards. (2 Chronicles 25, 23)
He rebuilt Elath and recovered it for Judah, after the death of Amaziah. (2 Chronicles 26, 2)
The total number of heads of families among these valiant warriors was two thousand six hundred. (2 Chronicles 26, 12)
