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2 Chronicles 25:20

2 Chronicles 25:20
But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.

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Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 25:17-28

We have here this degenerate prince mortified by his neighbour and murdered by his own subjects.

I. Never was proud prince more thoroughly mortified than Amaziah was by Joash king of Israel.

1. This…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

for it was of God Not in Kings. This turn is characteristic of the Chronicler; cp. 2Ch 10:15; 2Ch 22:7.