3. As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king.
4. However, he did not put their children to death, because — as it is written in the Law, in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded — “Fathers must not die because of children, and children must not die because of fathers, but each one will die for his own sin.”
5. Then Amaziah gathered Judah and assembled them according to ancestral house, according to commanders of thousands, and according to commanders of hundreds. He numbered those 20 years old or more for all Judah and Benjamin. He found there to be 300,000 choice men who could serve in the army, bearing spear and shield.
6. Then for 7,500 pounds of silver he hired 100,000 brave warriors from Israel.
7. However, a man of God came to him and said, “King, do not let Israel’s army go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel — all the Ephraimites.
8. But if you go with them, do it! Be strong for battle! But God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to make one stumble.”
9. Then Amaziah said to the man of God, “What should I do about the 7,500 pounds of silver I gave to Israel’s division? ”The man of God replied, “The Lord is able to give you much more than this.”