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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.
And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
New Defender's Study Bible Notes
25:14 bowed down himself before them. After the miraculous deliverance of the Edomites into his hand by God, it seems almost incredible that Amaziah would then bow down to their impotent “gods.”
25:17 Then Amaziah. The material in II Chronicles 25:17-28 is obviously largely drawn from the same source record as II Kings 14:8-20.
25:20 would not hear. Amaziah wanted to take vengeance on Israel because the Ephraimites, angered because they had been recruited by him and then rejected on the counsel of the man of God (II Chronicles 25:7), had themselves attacked many cities of Judah (II Chronicles 25:13).