2 Chronicles 25:21

So Joash king of Israel came up, and they looked one another in the face, he, and Amaziah king of Judah,—in Beth-shemesh, which belongeth unto Judah.

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In The King James Version

So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

In Context

20But Amaziah hearkened not, because, from God, it was, to the end he might deliver them up into [their enemies’] hand,—because they had sought the gods of Edom.

22Then was Judah defeated, before Israel,—and they fled every man to his own home;

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Cross References

Joshua 21:16and Ain, with her pasture land, and Juttah, with her pasture land, Beth-shemesh, with her pasture land,—nine cities, out of these two tribes.

1 Samuel 6:19And, when he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of Yahweh, yea smote of the people seventy men [and] fifty thousand men, the people mourned, for that Yahweh had smitten the people with a great smiting.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 25:18-28

The Death of Amaziah. ( b. c. 825.) 17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face. 18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle. 19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites;… Read the whole commentary →

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