2 Chronicles 25:11-14
valley 2Sam 8:13; 2Kgs 14:7; Ps 60:1 *title And other ten thousand No intimation is given on what account, or on what provocation, this most cruel conduct towards the prisoners of war was adopted. The enmity between Israel and Edom seems to have been reciprocal and deeply malignant. The victorious king and his army considered every individual of Edom as a traitor and rebel; and so adjudged them to death, and acted on this judgment. But their conduct was wholly inexcusable, and could only perpetuate rancour to future generations, and provoke the surviving Edomites to cruel retaliations, whenever they had it in their power. cast them 2Sam 12:31; 1Chr 20:3 broken in pieces 2Chr 20:10, 2Chr 21:8-10 soldiers of the army Heb. sons of the band, 2Chr 25:9 fell upon the cities These Israelites seem to have returned home, when discharged by Amaziah, whose powerful army deterred them from attempting revenge at that time; but when he was engaged in war with the Edomites, they marched from Samaria, and plundered all the cities till they came to Beth-horon, where they slew 3,000 of the inhabitants. Samaria 1Kgs 16:24, 1Kgs 16:29 Bethhoron 2Chr 8:5; 1Kgs 9:17 he brought 2Chr 28:23; Isa 44:19 his gods Exod 20:3-5; Deut 7:5, Deut 7:25; 2Sam 5:21
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