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97:9.22 The next king, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaziah_of_Judah Amaziah], had trouble with the revolting tax-paying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edomites Edomites] and their [[neighbors]]. After a signal victory he turned to [[attack]] his northern neighbors and was just as signally defeated. Then the [[rural]] folk revolted; they [[assassinated]] the king and put his sixteen-year-old son on the throne. This was Azariah], called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzziah Uzziah] by [http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah Isaiah]. After Uzziah, things went from bad to worse, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah Judah] existed for a hundred years by paying tribute to the kings of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyria]. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah Isaiah] the first told them that [[Jerusalem]], being the city of [[Yahweh]], would never fall. But [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Jeremiah] did not hesitate to proclaim its downfall.

97:9.22 The next king, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaziah_of_Judah Amaziah], had trouble with the revolting tax-paying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edomites Edomites] and their [[neighbors]]. After a signal victory he turned to [[attack]] his northern neighbors and was just as signally defeated. Then the [[rural]] folk revolted; they [[assassinated]] the king and put his sixteen-year-old son on the throne. This was Azariah], called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzziah Uzziah] by [http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah Isaiah]. After Uzziah, things went from bad to worse, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah Judah] existed for a hundred years by paying tribute to the kings of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyria]. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah Isaiah] the first told them that [[Jerusalem]], being the city of [[Yahweh]], would never fall. But [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Jeremiah] did not hesitate to proclaim its downfall.

97:9.23 The real undoing of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah Judah] was [[effected]] by a [[corrupt]] and rich ring of [[politicians]] operating under the rule of a boy king, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manasseh Manasseh]. The changing [[economy]] favored the return of the [[worship]] of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal Baal], whose [[private]] [[land]] dealings were against the [[ideology]] of [[Yahweh]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria#Assyria_after_the_Empire fall of Assyria] and the ascendency of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt] brought deliverance to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah Judah] for a time, and the country folk took over. Under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah Josiah] they destroyed the [[Jerusalem]] ring of [[corrupt]] [[politicians]].

97:9.23 The real undoing of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah Judah] was [[effected]] by a [[corrupt]] and rich ring of [[politicians]] operating under the rule of a boy king, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manasseh Manasseh]. The changing [[economy]] favored the return of the [[worship]] of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal Baal], whose [[private]] [[land]] dealings were against the [[ideology]] of [[Yahweh]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria#Assyria_after_the_Empire fall of Assyria] and the ascendency of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt] brought deliverance to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah Judah] for a time, and the country folk took over. Under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah Josiah] they destroyed the [[Jerusalem]] ring of [[corrupt]] [[politicians]].

97:9.24 But this era came to a [[tragic]] end when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah#Foreign_relations Josiah] presumed to go out to intercept [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necho_II Necho]'s mighty army as it moved up the coast from Egypt for the aid of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyria] against [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon]. He was wiped out, and Judah went under tribute to Egypt. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal Baal] political party returned to [[power]] in [[Jerusalem]], and thus began the real Egyptian bondage. Then ensued a period in which the Baalim politicians controlled both the [[courts]] and the [[priesthood]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal Baal] [[worship]] was an [[economic]] and [[social]] system dealing with [[property]] [[rights]] as well as having to do with [[soil]] [[fertility]].

97:9.24 But this era came to a [[tragic]] end when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah#Foreign_relations Josiah] presumed to go out to intercept [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necho_II Necho]'s mighty army as it moved up the coast from Egypt for the aid of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyria] against [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon]. He was wiped out, and Judah went under tribute to Egypt. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal Baal] political party returned to [[power]] in [[Jerusalem]], and thus began the real Egyptian bondage. Then ensued a period in which the Baalim politicians controlled both the [[courts]] and the [[priesthood]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal Baal] [[worship]] was an [[economic]] and [[social]] system dealing with [[property]] [[rights]] as well as having to do with [[soil]] [[fertility]].