Text: 2 Chronicles 25:1-26
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 14:1-22
Subject: Amaziah's reign — parallel account with expansions
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel accounts of Amaziah's reign. Both record his execution of his father's assassins (while sparing their sons per Deuteronomy 24:16), his Edomite victory, his disastrous challenge to Jehoash of Israel resulting in defeat and partial destruction of Jerusalem's walls, and his eventual assassination. The Chronicler adds substantial material: Amaziah's hiring and then dismissing 100,000 Israelite mercenaries at a prophet's warning, his worship of captured Edomite gods provoking prophetic rebuke, and the explanation that his defeat by Israel was divine judgment "because they had sought the gods of Edom." These additions illustrate the Chronicler's pattern of connecting military outcomes directly to theological faithfulness.