2 Chronicles 25:10

The Message

So Amaziah fired the soldiers he had hired from the north and sent them home. They were very angry at losing their jobs and went home seething.

Cross References

Proverbs 29:22

Angry people stir up a lot of discord; the intemperate stir up trouble.

2 Samuel 19:43

The men of Israel shot back, “We have ten shares in the king to your one. Besides we’re the firstborn—so why are we having to play second fiddle? It was our idea to bring him back.” But the men of Judah took a harder line than the men of Israel.

2 Chronicles 25:9

But Amaziah said to the holy man, “But what about all this money—these tons of silver I have already paid out to hire these men?” “God’s help is worth far more to you than that,” said the holy man.

2 Chronicles 25:11

But Amaziah was optimistic. He led his troops into the Valley of Salt and killed ten thousand men of Seir. They took another ten thousand as prisoners, led them to the top of the Rock, and pushed them off a cliff. They all died in the fall, smashed on the rocks.