Jehoash did not wait to be attacked. Invading Judea from the west and ascending from the low coastal tract, he met the army of Amaziah at Beth-shem…

Looked one another in the face — that is, encountered one another; joined battle.

Beth-shemesh. —The moder…

But Amaziah would not hear
Being given up to a judicial hardness of heart through pride; for this was of God, and by…

For some time after the division of the kingdoms, Judah suffered much from the enmity of Israel. After Asa's time, it suffered more by the friendsh…