top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces, (2 Chron.25:11-12).
(2)
Having been given this victory over Israel’s enemies by God, Amaziah, in a move which
even the heathen could not have understood, took Edom’s gods home with him and began
worshipping them.
(a)
This incredibly strange deed
infuriated God, to the eventual
disgrace of the king and great harm
to the nation.
(b)
God had given the Israelites their
own land and had given the
Edomites theirs.
(c)
God had promised Israel that if they
obeyed the Law, no one would take
their land, and He had forbidden
Israel to take one inch of Edom’s
territory.
(1)
Yet, conflict between Israel
and Edom continued.
(2)
It appears that whenever
either nation thought it could
succeed, it would viciously
attack the other, though
Israel’s righteous kings never
did so unprovoked.
(3)
About seventy-five years after Amaziah’s
insane and idolatrous act, his great-
grandson, Ahaz, was under pressure from
the invading and plundering Edomites.
(a)
The Philistines, who seized several
villages in the south and west.
(b)
They levied a special tax on the
princes of Judah and took money
from his own treasury and from the
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