Amaziah summoned up his courage and led his army to Salt Valley. There they fought and killed ten thousand Edomite soldiers

and captured another ten thousand. They took the prisoners to the top of the cliff at the city of Sela and threw them off, so that they were killed on the rocks below.

"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.

"Because you robbed and killed your relatives, the descendants of Jacob, you will be destroyed and dishonored forever.

You should not have entered the city of my people to gloat over their suffering and to seize their riches on the day of their disaster.

You should not have stood at the crossroads to catch those trying to escape. You should not have handed them over to the enemy on the day of their distress.