11 Then Amaziah was encouraged, and led forth his people, and went to the salt valley, and smote of the children of [a]Seir, ten thousand.

12 And other ten thousand did the children of Judah take alive, and carried them to the top of a [b]rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, and they all burst to pieces.

13 But the men of the [c]army, which Amaziah sent away, that they should not go with his people to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah from Samaria unto Beth Horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 25:11 For the Idumeans whom David had brought to subjection, rebelled under Jehoram Jehoshaphat’s son.
  2. 2 Chronicles 25:12 In 2 Kings 14:7, this rock is called the city Sela.
  3. 2 Chronicles 25:13 That is, the hundred thousand of Israel.

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