Wednesday Bible Study: A shaggy dog tale

(Posting late today because I had a meeting all morning.)  Portions of this story are told in 2 Kings 14 but it seems to come largely from a different source, or in this case sources, the lost Chronicles of the Kings of Judah and Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. Amaziah ' s big mistake is to get involved with the northern kingdom, which is out of favor with the big guy in the sky, and that seems to be the main point of this. Why the Chronicler is so obsessed with trashing the northern kingdom is hard to fathom since it had long since ceased to exist by the time he wrote this. But whatever.25 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother ’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.2 He did what was right in the eyes of theLord, but not wholeheartedly.3 After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.4 Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where theLord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[a]5 Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and fou...
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