2 Chronicles 25:1-6 ▼

1 Amaziah (YHWH is mighty) was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem (city of peace) twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan (YHWH delights); she was from Jerusalem.

2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD {YHWH}, but not wholeheartedly.

3 As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.

4 Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses (drawn out), where the LORD {YHWH} commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin .”

5 Then Amaziah (YHWH is mighty) gathered the people of Judah (praised) and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin (son of the right hand) and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.

6 He also hired 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel (he wrestles with God) for a hundred talents of silver <3.77 t / 3.42 mt>.