Amaziah dismisses hired troops and defeats Edom
Amaziah hired warriors from Israel, but at a prophet's word he sent them home despite the cost. Judah then defeated Edom in the Valley of Salt, while the dismissed troops raided Judean towns on their return (2 Chronicles 25:5-13).
5Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield. 6He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver. 7But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.
