2 Chronicles 25 · Verse 21

2 Chronicles 25:21

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.
2 Chronicles 25:21, King James Version

2 Chronicles 25:21 in other translations

BSBSo Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
WEBSo Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
ASVSo 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.
YLTand go up doth Joash king of Israel, and they look one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, in Beth-Shemesh, that is Judah's,
DARBYAnd Joash king of Israel went up; and they looked one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
BBEAnd so Joash, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
WebsterSo 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.

What does 2 Chronicles 25:21 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 25:17-28

Never was a proud prince more thoroughly mortified than Amaziah by Joash king of Israel. A man's pride will bring him low, Pr 29:23; it goes before his destruction, and deservedly brings it on. He that exalteth himself shall be abased. He that goes forth hastily to strive, will not know what he shall do in the end thereof, when his neighbour has put him to shame, Pr 25:8. And what are we when we offer to establish…

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2 Chronicles 25:21 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיַּ֨עַלvai.Ya.'aland he went upH5927
יוֹאָ֤שׁyo.'AshJoashH3101
מֶֽלֶךְ\־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
וַיִּתְרָא֣וּvai.yit.ra.'Uand they looked at one anotherH7200
פָנִ֔יםfa.NimfacesH6440
ה֖וּאhu'heH1931
וַאֲמַצְיָ֣הוּva.'a.matz.Ya.huand AmaziahH558
מֶֽלֶךְ\־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428
יְהוּדָ֑הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
בְּבֵ֥יתbe.Veitat BethH1053
שֶׁ֖מֶשׁShe.meshShemeshH1053
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834
לִיהוּדָֽה\׃li.hu.Dah[belonged] to JudahH3063

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 25:21

  • Joshua 21:16

    And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

  • 1 Samuel 6:19-20

    And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. And the men of Beth–shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

  • 1 Samuel 6:9

    And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth–shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
they saw one another.That is, "they fought against each other." To face an enemy, or to face one another, is still a common expression. The reason of this war was evidently the injury the army of Joash had done to the unoffending inhabitants of Judah. The ravages committed by them were totally unprovoked, base, and cowardly: they fell upon women, old men, and children, and butchered them in cold blood, when all the effective men were gone with their king against the Edomites. The quarrel of Amaziah were certainly just, yet he was put to the rout: he fell, and Judah with him, as Joash had said; and the reason was, because "it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hands of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom." This was the reason why the Israelites triumphed.
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Beth-shemesh.
Jos 21:16; 1Sa 6:9,19,20

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 25:20

    But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.

  • 2 Chronicles 25:21

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 25:22

    And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.

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2 Chronicles 25:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Subió pues Joas rey de Israel, y viéronse cara á cara él y Amasías rey de Judá, en Beth-semes, la cual es de Judá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Joas, roi d’Israël, monta; et ils se virent face à face, lui et Amatsia, roi de Juda, à Beth-Shémesh, qui est à Juda.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da zog Joas, der König von Israel, herauf; und sie sahen einander ins Angesicht, er und Amazja, der König von Juda, zu Beth-Semes, das zu Juda gehört.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ascendit igitur Joas rex Israël, et mutuos sibi præbuere conspectus: Amasias autem rex Juda erat in Bethsames Juda: