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Once his power was firmly established, he put his father’s murderers to death, (2 Chronicles 25, 3)
but not their children; the Lord’s injunction, laid down by the terms of Moses’ law, was that a father must not die for his son’s guilt, or a son for his father’s; no guilt but his own should bring a man to death.✻ (2 Chronicles 25, 4)
Count as thou wilt on the strength of thy array, God will give thy enemies the mastery; he alone sends victory and defeat. (2 Chronicles 25, 8)
But meanwhile the army which Amasias had sent home, instead of taking them into battle with him, scattered here and there among the cities of Juda, all the way (from Samaria)✻ to Bethoron, killing three thousand of the inhabitants, and carrying away great store of plunder. (2 Chronicles 25, 13)
But ever since he forsook the Lord, fresh troubles befell him. A conspiracy was made against him in Jerusalem, and when he fled to Lachis they sent in pursuit of him and put him to death there; (2 Chronicles 25, 27)
For all this great array Ozias provided shield and spear, helmet and breastplate, bows, too, and slings for shooting stones. (2 Chronicles 26, 14)
At Jerusalem, he contrived engines of many sorts, poised on tower or on wall-corner, that discharged arrows and great boulders. Far spread his fame, such help the Lord gave him, and such greatness. (2 Chronicles 26, 15)
But this greatness of his made his heart proud, to his own undoing. He slighted the Lord his God; into the temple he would go, and there burn incense at the censing-altar. (2 Chronicles 26, 16)
At this, Ozias turned round in anger, the censer already in his hand with the incense ready for lighting, and began to threaten them. And with that, in the priests’ presence, there in the Lord’s house, by the censing-altar, the mark of leprosy started out on his brow. (2 Chronicles 26, 19)
King Ozias remained a leper till the day of his death, dwelling apart in a house of his own, while his son Joatham had charge of the palace, and heard the complaints of his subjects. (2 Chronicles 26, 21)
He gave battle to the Ammonites and defeated them; a hundred talents of silver the Ammonites must pay him, with ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many of barley, that year and in the two years that followed. (2 Chronicles 27, 5)
Such greatness Joatham achieved by his obedience to the Lord’s will. (2 Chronicles 27, 6)
