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11 [a]Then Amaziah marshaled his courage and led out his army. They advanced to the Valley of Salt, and there they killed ten thousand men of Seir. 12 In addition, the men of Judah captured another ten thousand men alive. Bringing them to the top of a cliff, they threw them down so that they were all dashed to pieces. 13 Meanwhile, the mercenaries whom Amaziah had sent back home, without allowing them to take part with him in the battle, raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon. They slaughtered three thousand people in those cities and carried off great quantities of plunder.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 25:11 Valley of Salt: south of the Dead Sea, in the territory of Edom (Seir); see 2 Sam 8:13. A cliff: a rock on which was subsequently built a city which bears that name (i.e., the modern Petra).