9. Amaziah asked the man of God, “But what about all that silver I paid to hire the army of Israel?”The man of God replied, “The lord is able to give you much more than this!”
10. So Amaziah discharged the hired troops and sent them back to Ephraim. This made them very angry with Judah, and they returned home in a great rage.
11. Then Amaziah summoned his courage and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where they killed 10,000 Edomite troops from Seir.
12. They captured another 10,000 and took them to the top of a cliff and threw them off, dashing them to pieces on the rocks below.
13. Meanwhile, the hired troops that Amaziah had sent home raided several of the towns of Judah between Samaria and Beth-horon. They killed 3,000 people and carried off great quantities of plunder.
14. When King Amaziah returned from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought with him idols taken from the people of Seir. He set them up as his own gods, bowed down in front of them, and offered sacrifices to them!
15. This made the lord very angry, and he sent a prophet to ask, “Why do you turn to gods who could not even save their own people from you?”