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2 Chronicles 25:21

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So Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 25

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

they saw one another in the face

on 2 Chronicles 25:21-24

The defeat at Beth-shemesh, the broken wall and the plundered temple parallel 2 Kings 14:11-14 in close detail, already carried in full there. Chronicles adds one note of its own, that the temple vessels taken were with Obed-edom, the family David had set as gatekeepers over the ark generations earlier, tying the temple's own guardians into a chapter about a king who stopped guarding his own worship. Judah breaks before Israel exactly as the prophet's silenced word had already said it would.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּ֨עַלand he went up

    vaiyaalH5927 →890 times

  • יוֹאָ֤שׁJoash

    yoashH3101 →47 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַיִּתְרָא֣וּand they looked at one another

    vaiyitrauH7200 →1300 times

  • פָנִ֔יםfaces

    fanimH6440 →2123 times

  • ה֖וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וַאֲמַצְיָ֣הוּand Amaziah

    vaamatzyahuH558 →40 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֑הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • בְּבֵ֥יתat Beth

    beveitH1053 →42 times

  • שֶׁ֖מֶשׁShemesh

    shemeshH1053 →42 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לִיהוּדָֽה׃[belonged] to Judah

    lihudahH3063 →819 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 21:16

    Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 15:55

      Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

    • Joshua 15:10

      The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.

    • 1 Chronicles 6:59

      Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, together with their pasturelands.

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 6:3

      They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be…

    • Ecclesiastes 9:11

      I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor…

    • Joshua 21:16

      Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.

    • 2 Samuel 1:6

      “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.

    • Luke 10:31

      Now by chance a priest was going down the same road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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