Verse 8
2 Chronicles 25:8
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And if thou think that battles consist in the strength of the army, God (Elohim) will make thee to be overcome by the enemies: for it belongeth to God (Elohim) both to help, and to put to flight.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֚י אִם בֹּ֣א אַתָּ֔ה עֲשֵׂ֖ה חֲזַ֣ק לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה יַכְשִֽׁילְ/ךָ֤ הָֽ/אֱלֹהִים֙ לִ/פְנֵ֣י אוֹיֵ֔ב כִּ֥י יֶשׁ כֹּ֛חַ בֵּ/אלֹהִ֖ים לַ/עְז֥וֹר וּ/לְ/הַכְשִֽׁיל
English Translation
For if you come, be strong for battle; God will make you stumble before the enemy, for there is strength in God to help and to defeat.
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Chapter 25 Context
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Amasias was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned nine and twenty years i...
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And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not with a perfect heart.
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And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to death the servants that had slain the...
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But he slew not their children, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord com...
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Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by families, and captains of thousands...
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He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.
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But a man of God (Elohim) came to him, and said: O king, let not the army of Israel go out with thee...
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And if thou think that battles consist in the strength of the army, God (Elohim) will make thee to b...
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And Amasias said to the man of God (Elohim): What will then become of the hundred talents which I ha...
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Then Amasias separated the army, that came to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: but they being m...
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And Amasias taking courage led forth his people, and went to the vale of saltpits, and slew of the c...
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And other ten thousand men the sons of Juda took, and brought to the steep of a certain rock, and ca...
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But that army which Amasias had sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, spread themse...
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But Amasias after he had slain the Edomites, set up the gods of the children of Seir, which he had b...
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Wherefore the Lord being angry against Amasias, sent a prophet to him, to say to him: Why hast thou...
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And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I ki...
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Then Amasias king of Juda taking very bad counsel, sent to Joas the son of Joachaz the son of Jehu,...
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But he sent back the messengers, saying: The thistle that is in Libanus, sent to the cedar in Libanu...
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Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom, and therefore thy heart is lifted up with pride : stay at ho...
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Amasias would not hearken to him, because it was the Lord's will that he should be delivered into th...
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So Joas king of Israel went up, and they presented themselves to be seen by one another: and Amasias...
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And Juda fell before Israel and they fled to their dwellings.
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And Joas king of Israel took Amasias king of Juda, the son of Joas, the son Joachaz, in Bethsames, a...
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And he took all the gold, and silver, and all the vessels, that he found in the house of God (Elohim...
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And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda lived, after the death of Joas the son of Joachaz king of I...
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Now the rest of the acts of Amasias, the first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Jud...
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And after he revolted from the Lord, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled in...
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And they brought him back upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of David.
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