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2Ch 25:17	Strong Concordance	Then Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063] took advice [03289], and sent [07971] to Joash [03101], the son [01121] of Jehoahaz [03059], the son [01121] of Jehu [03058], king [04428] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], Come [03212], let us see one another [07200] in the face [06440].
	King James	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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
HE PROVOKES JOASH TO HIS OVERTHROW. (Ch2 25:17) Then Amaziah . . . sent to Joash . . . Come, let us see one another in the face--(See on Kg2 14:8-20).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

HE PROVOKES JOASH TO HIS OVERTHROW. (Ch2 25:17)

Then Amaziah . . . sent to Joash . . . Come, let us see one another in the face--(See on Kg2 14:8-20).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The war with Joash, king of Israel. - Instead of following the counsel of the prophet, Amaziah consulted (sc., with his public officials or courtiers), and challenged King Joash of Israel to war. The challenge, and the war which followed, are also narrated in Kg2 14:8-14 in agreement with our account, and have been already commented upon at that place, where we have also considered the occasion of this war, so fatal to Amaziah and the kingdom of Judah, on account of which has been handed down to us only in the supplementary narrative of the Chronicle. לך in Ch2 25:17 for לכה, come, as in Num 23:13 and Jdg 19:13. - In Ch2 25:20 the chronicler explains Amaziah's refusal to hear the warning of Joash before the war with him, by a reference to the divine determination: "For it (came) of God (that Amaziah still went to war), that He might deliver them (the men of Judah) into the hand, because they had sought the gods of Edom." בּיד נתן, to give into the power of the enemy. - In Ch2 25:23, הפּונה שׁער is a manifest error for הפּנּה (Kg2 14:13). Were הפּונה, the gate that turns itself, faces (in some direction), correct, the direction would have to be given towards which it turned, e.g., Eze 8:3. - וגו וכל־הזּהב, Ch2 25:24, still depends upon תּפשׂ, Ch2 25:23 : and (took away) all the gold, etc. In Kg2 14:14, ולקח is supplied.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Advice - About the injury which the Israelites had done to his people, and how he should repair it. He took advice. But with whom? Not with the prophet, but with his flattering statesmen. It is good to take advice: but it should be of them who are fit to advise us.

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⁸ Then Amaziah [0558] sent [07971] messengers [04397] to Jehoash [03060], the son [01121] of Jehoahaz [03059] son [01121] of Jehu [03058], king [04428] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], Come [03212], let us look [07200] one another in the face [06440].
⁹ And Jehoash [03060] the king [04428] of Israel [03478] sent [07971] to Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063], saying [0559], The thistle [02336] that was in Lebanon [03844] sent [07971] to the cedar [0730] that was in Lebanon [03844], saying [0559], Give [05414] thy daughter [01323] to my son [01121] to wife [0802]: and there passed [05674] by a wild [07704] beast [02416] that was in Lebanon [03844], and trode down [07429] the thistle [02336].
¹⁰ Thou hast indeed [05221] smitten [05221] Edom [0123], and thine heart [03820] hath lifted thee up [05375]: glory [03513] of this, and tarry [03427] at home [01004]: for why shouldest thou meddle [01624] to thy hurt [07451], that thou shouldest fall [05307], even thou, and Judah [03063] with thee?
¹¹ But Amaziah [0558] would not hear [08085]. Therefore Jehoash [03060] king [04428] of Israel [03478] went up [05927]; and he and Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063] looked [07200] one another in the face [06440] at Bethshemesh [01053], which belongeth to Judah [03063].
¹² And Judah [03063] was put to the worse [05062] before [06440] Israel [03478]; and they fled [05127] every man [0376] to their tents [0168].
¹³ And Jehoash [03060] king [04428] of Israel [03478] took [08610] Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063], the son [01121] of Jehoash [03060] the son [01121] of Ahaziah [0274], at Bethshemesh [01053], and came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389], and brake down [06555] the wall [02346] of Jerusalem [03389] from the gate [08179] of Ephraim [0669] unto the corner [06438] gate [08179], four [0702] hundred [03967] cubits [0520].
¹⁴ And he took [03947] all the gold [02091] and silver [03701], and all the vessels [03627] that were found [04672] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and in the treasures [0214] of the king's [04428] house [01004], and hostages [01121] [08594], and returned [07725] to Samaria [08111].
¹⁵ Now the rest [03499] of the acts [01697] of Jehoash [03060] which he did [06213], and his might [01369], and how he fought [03898] with Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063], are they not written [03789] in the book [05612] of the chronicles [01697] [03117] of the kings [04428] of Israel [03478]?
¹⁶ And Jehoash [03060] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and was buried [06912] in Samaria [08111] with the kings [04428] of Israel [03478]; and Jeroboam [03379] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.
¹⁷ And Amaziah [0558] the son [01121] of Joash [03101] king [04428] of Judah [03063] lived [02421] after [0310] the death [04194] of Jehoash [03060] son [01121] of Jehoahaz [03059] king [04428] of Israel [03478] fifteen [02568] [06240] years [08141].
¹⁸ And the rest [03499] of the acts [01697] of Amaziah [0558], are they not written [03789] in the book [05612] of the chronicles [01697] [03117] of the kings [04428] of Judah [03063]?
¹⁹ Now they made [07194] a conspiracy [07195] against him in Jerusalem [03389]: and he fled [05127] to Lachish [03923]; but they sent [07971] after [0310] him to Lachish [03923], and slew [04191] him there.
²⁰ And they brought [05375] him on horses [05483]: and he was buried [06912] at Jerusalem [03389] with his fathers [01] in the city [05892] of David [01732].

¹⁷ Then Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063] took advice [03289], and sent [07971] to Joash [03101], the son [01121] of Jehoahaz [03059], the son [01121] of Jehu [03058], king [04428] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], Come [03212], let us see one another [07200] in the face [06440].

¹⁴ And he took [03947] all the gold [02091] and silver [03701], and all the vessels [03627] that were found [04672] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and in the treasures [0214] of the king's [04428] house [01004], and hostages [01121] [08594], and returned [07725] to Samaria [08111].

²³ And Joash [03101] the king [04428] of Israel [03478] took [08610] Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063], the son [01121] of Joash [03101], the son [01121] of Jehoahaz [03059], at Bethshemesh [01053], and brought [0935] him to Jerusalem [03389], and brake down [06555] the wall [02346] of Jerusalem [03389] from the gate [08179] of Ephraim [0669] to the corner [06437] gate [08179], four [0702] hundred [03967] cubits [0520].

²⁴ And he took all the gold [02091] and the silver [03701], and all the vessels [03627] that were found [04672] in the house [01004] of God [0430] with Obededom [05654], and the treasures [0214] of the king's [04428] house [01004], the hostages [01121] [08594] also, and returned [07725] to Samaria [08111].

³ And he put forth [07971] the form [08403] of an hand [03027], and took [03947] me by a lock [06734] of mine head [07218]; and the spirit [07307] lifted me up [05375] between the earth [0776] and the heaven [08064], and brought [0935] me in the visions [04759] of God [0430] to Jerusalem [03389], to the door [06607] of the inner [06442] gate [08179] that looketh [06437] toward the north [06828]; where was the seat [04186] of the image [05566] of jealousy [07068], which provoketh to jealousy [07069].

¹³ And Jehoash [03060] king [04428] of Israel [03478] took [08610] Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063], the son [01121] of Jehoash [03060] the son [01121] of Ahaziah [0274], at Bethshemesh [01053], and came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389], and brake down [06555] the wall [02346] of Jerusalem [03389] from the gate [08179] of Ephraim [0669] unto the corner [06438] gate [08179], four [0702] hundred [03967] cubits [0520].

²⁰ But Amaziah [0558] would not hear [08085]; for it came of God [0430], that he might deliver [05414] them into the hand [03027] of their enemies, because they sought [01875] after the gods [0430] of Edom [0123].

¹³ And he said [0559] unto his servant [05288], Come [03212], and let us draw near [07126] to one [0259] of these places [04725] to lodge all night [03885], in Gibeah [01390], or in Ramah [07414].

¹³ And Balak [01111] said [0559] unto him, Come [03212], I pray thee, with me unto another [0312] place [04725], from whence thou mayest see [07200] them: thou shalt see [07200] but [0657] the utmost [07097] part of them, and shalt not see [07200] them all: and curse [06895] me them from thence.