Look at 2 Chronicles 25:2 and you will notice what might be called a “split-epitaph.” The author of this passage1 stamped Amaziah’s life with good and bad. In this post, I will focus on his good phase the phase that resulted in his being approved by God. In another, I hope to point out that other side, and in a third to reconcile the two with me, with us, with the human condition: humanity as a melange, good admixed with evil.
Amaziah begins
[Read more…] about Stamp of God (Approved): Amaziah had a good phase1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly. 3 After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. 4 Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.” (2 Chronicles 25:1-4–ESV)