2 Chronicles 25:1

_AMAZIAH WAS TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED TWENTY AND NINE YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS JEHOADDAN OF JERUSALEM._ Amaziah was twenty and five years old ... - (see the notes at 2 Kings 14:1)...

1-13 Amaziah was no enemy to religion, but cool and indifferent friend. Many do what is good, but not with a perfect heart. Rashness makes work for repentance. But Amaziah's obedience to the command of God was to his honour. A firm belief of God's all-sufficiency to bear us out in our duty, and to make up all the loss and damage was sustain in his service, will make his yoke very easy, and his burden very light. When we are called to part with any thing for God and our religion, it should satisfy us, that God is able to give us much more than this. Convinced sinners, who have not true faith, always object to self-denying obedience. They are like Amaziah; they say, But what shall we do for the hundred talents? What shall we do if by keeping the sabbath holy we lose so many good customers? What shall we do without this gain? What shall we do if we lose the friendship of the world? Many en...

CHAPTER XXV _Amaziah succeeds his father Joash, and begins his reign well_, 1, 2. _He slays his father's murderers but spares their children_, 3, 4. _He reviews and remodels the army_, 5; _and hires a hundred thousand soldiers out of Israel, whom, on_ _the expostulation of a prophet, he sends home again, without_ _bringing them into active service; at which they are greatly_ _offended_, 6-10. _He attacks the Syrians, kills_ ten thousand, _and takes_ ten thousand _prisoners, whom he precipitates from the top of a_...

This chapter is evidently taken to a large extent from the same document as Kings (see the marginal reference and the notes). At the same time it contains large and important additions; e. g. 2 Chronicles 25:5, 2 Chronicles 25:13....

EXPOSITION This chapter is filled up with a very graphic account of the entire career of Amaziah, and its twenty-eight verses are paralleled by the twenty verses of 2 Kings 14:1, where the narrative reads in several places much more curtly. Our chapter opens with the familiar anticipatory summary of the man, his age, pedigree, and character, whose course is to be detailed more precisely in following verses, again and yet again sounding the clear key-note of an unclean character and reign (2 Chronicles 25:1, 2 Chronicles 25:2); it proceeds to record the king's avenging of his father's murder (2 Chro

Ver. 1-4. AMAZIAH WAS TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN,.... Of these verses, 2 Kings 14:2. 2 Kings 14:3. 2 Kings 14:5. 2 Kings 14:6....

5. DECLINE AND APOSTASY UNDER AMAZIAH, UZZIAH, JOTHAM AND AHAZ CHAPTER 25 The Reign of Amaziah _ 1. The record of Amaziah's reign (2 Chronicles 25:1)_ 2. The war against Edom (2 Chronicles 25:5) 3. His idolatry and the divine rebuke (2 Chronicles 25:14) 4. The war between Judah and Israel (2 Chronicles 25:17) 5. The death of Amaziah (2 Chronicles 25:26) Joash's son Amaziah (strength of the Lord) took up the government in Judah when he wa

THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH. This section is taken from 2 Kings 14:1 with some considerable additions and modifications characteristic of the Chronicler. 2 Chronicles 25:1. See notes on 2 Kings 14:1; the Chronicler omits all reference to worship on the high places. 2 Chronicles 25:5. A midrashic expansion of 2 Kings 14:7, forming a background to the verses which follow. 2 Chronicles 25:7. a man of God:...

AMAZIAH. Compare 2 Kings 14:1. Complementary to Kings (see App-56); verses: 2 Chronicles 25:5 and verses: 2 Chronicles 25:13 are additional....

2 Chronicles 25:1-4 (2 Kings 14:1-6). Amaziah Succeeds 2. _not with a perfect heart_ In Kings, "yet not like David his father" (because "the high places were not taken away"). The Chronicler has something more serious in his mind; cp. 2 Chronicles 25:14-16....