1-4. Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king and reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jehoaddin from Jerusalem. He lived well before God, doing the right thing for the most part. But he wasn’t wholeheartedly devoted to God. When he had the affairs of the kingdom well in hand, he executed the palace guard who had assassinated his father the king. But he didn’t kill the sons of the assassins—he was mindful of what God commanded in The Revelation of Moses, that parents shouldn’t be executed for their childrens’ sins, nor children for their parents’. We each pay personally for our sins.
9. But Amaziah said to the holy man, “But what about all this money—these tons of silver I have already paid out to hire these men?”“God’s help is worth far more to you than that,” said the holy man.
10. So Amaziah fired the soldiers he had hired from the north and sent them home. They were very angry at losing their jobs and went home seething.