Amaziah’s Campaign against Edom

⁵ Then Amaziah gathered Judah and assembled them according to ancestral families,^[a] according to commanders of thousands, and according to commanders of hundreds. He numbered those twenty years old or more^(A) for all Judah and Benjamin. He found there to be three hundred thousand fit young men who could serve in the army, bearing spear and shield.^{(B) 6} Then for 7,500 pounds^[b] of silver he hired one hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel.

⁷ However, a man of God^(C) 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.