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2 Chronicles 25:21
So Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator describes the immediate aftermath of Amaziah’s refusal to heed a divine warning, placing Jehoash king of Israel and Amaziah king of Judah in direct military confrontation at Beth-shemesh.
The words — וַ/יִּתְרָא֣וּ (va/i.yit.ra.'U) = and/ they looked at one another [H7200] combined with פָנִ֔ים (fa.Nim) = faces [H6440] literally render the action as the two kings facing each other.
The thread — Beth-shemesh functions repeatedly as a geographic marker in Israel’s history, appearing in the tribal allotment records (Joshua 21:16) and as the destination of the returning ark (1 Samuel 6:9).
Why it lands — The verse records the factual positioning of opposing armies before the promised rout, requiring the reader to recognize that human defiance meets established historical consequence.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Joshua 21:16 Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.
- 1 Samuel 6:9 but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
- 1 Samuel 6:19 But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.