This chapter begins with the reign of Amaziah, and some of the first acts of it, slaying those that killed his father, 2 Chron. 25:1–4, raising a large army in his own kingdom, to which he added 100,000 more he hired out of Israel, whom yet he sent home by the advice of a prophet, 2 Chron.

Amaziah was twenty five years old when he began to 2 Chron. 25:2

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together The inhabitants thereof: and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin; he divided the people, according to their families throughout his kingdom, into thousands…

Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice Not of God, nor of his prophets, but of some of his nobles like himself: and sent to Joash—king of Israel; of his message to him here, and his answer in the two following verses, see the following notes: (See Gill on 2 Kings 14:8). (See Gill on 2 Kings 14:9).

But Amaziah would not hear What the king of Israel advised him to, not to meddle to his hurt; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies; Amaziah and his army into the hands of Joash and his; this was the will of God, and was brought about by his providence; and…