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Updated: August 28, 2024
It comes so easily to us that we scarcely recognise the metaphorical element, but the clear recognition of it gives great additional energy to the words. Amasiah was both sacrificer and sacrifice. His offering was self-immolation.
And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour. And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand. And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
But it never occurred to any of these peoples that their own gods were any less real than Judah's, or that Judah's God could ever become theirs. 'Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the Lord. 1 CHRON. xvii, 16. This is a scrap from the catalogue of Jehoshaphat's 'mighty men of valour'; and is Amasiah's sole record.
The world forgot Amasiah, or never knew him, an obscure soldier in an obscure kingdom, but God did not forget, and here is his epitaph, and this is his memorial to all generations. 'Then shall every man have praise of Christ, and he who wins that guerdon needs nothing more, and can have nothing more to swell his blessedness.
God's priests offer themselves because they offer their wills; they offer their wills because they love God; they love God because they know that God loves them. That is the divine order. It is vain to try to accomplish the end by any other. II. This willing offering hallows all life. No syllable is left to tell us what Amasiah did to win this praise.
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