2 Chronicles 25:5

_MOREOVER AMAZIAH GATHERED JUDAH TOGETHER, AND MADE THEM CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER HUNDREDS, ACCORDING TO THE HOUSES OF THEIR FATHERS, THROUGHOUT ALL JUDAH AND BENJAMIN: AND HE NUMBERED THEM FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND ABOVE, AND FOUND THEM THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND CHOICE MEN, ABLE TO GO FORTH TO WAR, THAT COULD HANDLE SPEAR AND SHIELD._ Amaziah ... made them captains ... Since all who were capable of bearing arms were liable to serve, it was quite natural, in making up the muster-roll, to class them according to their respective families, and to appoint the officers of each cords from the same quarter; so that all the soldiers who formed a regiment were brothers, relatives, friends. Thus, the Hebrew troops were closely linked together, and had strong inducements to keep steady in their ranks. FOUND THEM THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND CHOICE MEN. This was only a fourth part of Jeh...

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...

Verse 2 Chronicles 25:5. _GATHERED JUDAH TOGETHER_] He purposed to avenge himself of the Syrians, but wished to know his military strength before he came to a rupture....

THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND - Asa’s army had been nearly twice as numerous, amounting to 580, 000 2 Chronicles 14:8. The diminution was due, in part, to wars 2Ch 21:8, 2 Chronicles 21:16; 2 Chronicles 24:23; in part, to the general decadence of the kingdom....

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

MOREOVER AMAZIAH GATHERED JUDAH TOGETHER,.... The inhabitants thereof: AND MADE THEM CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER HUNDREDS, ACCORDING TO THE HOUSES OF THEIR FATHERS, THROUGHOUT ALL JUDAH AND BENJAMIN; he divided the people, according to their families throughout his kingdom, into thousands and hundreds, and out of their respective families appointed captains over them: AND HE NUMBERED THEM FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND ABOVE; the usual age men were numbered at for war, to the fiftieth, according to Josephus; the Roman law a obliged none to be soldiers after fifty, nor might any be dismissed before b; the age of military men with the Romans was from seventeen to forty six, or, as some, forty five; but with the Persians from twenty as here to fifty c: AND FOUND THEM THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND CHOICE MEN, ABLE TO GO FORTH TO WAR, THAT COULD HANDLE SPEAR AND SHIELD; which shows that...

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:...

10. THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH (Chapter 25) TEXT 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. 2. And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart. 3. Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. 4. But he put not their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Jehovah commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin. 5. Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers-' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundred

REIGN OF AMAZIAH This chapter is derived in the main from 2 Kings 14:1, but with two insertions, 2 Kings 14:5 and 2 Kings 14:13....