In Second Chronicles, chapter twenty-five, verse seven, God’s condemnation of alliances demonstrated the King of Judah’s failure to trust in God as in chapter sixteen, verses two through nine, chapter twenty-two, verse five, and Ezra four, verse three, respectively. An alliance with those whom God opposes and who are the enemies of God could result in defeat for his people, as in verses seven through eight of this chapter. This truth is recurrent by God’s prophets in Isaiah fifty-seven, verse thirteen, Jeremiah seventeen, verses five through eight, and chapter thirty-nine, verse eighteen.
Chapter twenty-five of Chronicles to the beginning of the next in verse one is about Amaziah, the King of Judah. He did right in the sight of God, as in verse two of this theme chapter, but his heart was not a hundred percent towards Him. For example, in verses three to four, “Now it came to pass when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.” He did ask questions to the servants of God in verse nine, “And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.” Amaziah had a disobedient side to his character, which became evident in verses seventeen through twenty of this theme chapter. He sought after the gods of Edom in verse twenty. Due to his imperfect heart toward God, Amaziah turned away from Him only to later find himself in a conspiracy in Jerusalem and fled to Lachish, which led to his ruin and died shortly after at the hands of his conspirators.