2 Chronicles 25:1-6 ▼

1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2 And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, yet not with a whole heart.

3 Now it happened as soon as the kingdom was strong in his grasp, that he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.

4 But he did not put their sons to death, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, which Yahweh commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor sons be put to death for their fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”

5 Moreover, Amaziah assembled Judah and appointed them according to their fathers’ households under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds throughout Judah and Benjamin; and he took a census of those from twenty years old and upward and found them to be 300,000 choice men, able to go out for military duty, able to handle spear and large shield.

6 And he hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.