2 Chronicles 25:1-6 ▼

1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

2 He did what the LORD approved, but not with wholehearted devotion.

3 When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.

4 However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the LORD's commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, |Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. A man must be executed only for his own sin.|

5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age equipped with spears and shields.

6 He hired 100,000 Israelite warriors for a hundred talents of silver.