2 Chronicles 25:25

25:25 King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Joash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.

2 Chronicles 24:2

24:2 Joash did what the Lord approved ¹  throughout the lifetime ²  of Jehoiada the priest.

2 Chronicles 24:4

24:4 Joash was determined to repair the Lord’s temple. ³ 

2 Chronicles 25:23

25:23 King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 18:25

18:25 Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.

2 Chronicles 24:22

24:22 King Joash disregarded ⁵  the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s ⁶  son. As Zechariah ⁷  was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 25:17

25:17 After King Amaziah of Judah consulted with his advisers, ⁹  he sent this message to the king of Israel, Joash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, “Come, face me on the battlefield.” ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 25:21

25:21 So King Joash of Israel attacked. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other on the battlefield ¹¹  in Beth Shemesh of Judah.

2 Chronicles 24:24

24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, ¹²  for the people of Judah ¹³  had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians ¹⁴  gave Joash what he deserved. ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 22:11

22:11 So Jehoshabeath, ¹⁶  the daughter of King Jehoram, ¹⁷  took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away ¹⁸  from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

2 Chronicles 25:18

25:18 King Joash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thorn bush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn bush. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “and Joash did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “all the days of.”

¹ tn Heb “and it was, later, there was with the heart of Joash to repair the house of the Lord.”

¹ tn Heb “400 cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the distance would have been about 600 feet (180 m).

¹ tn Heb “did not remember.”

² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.

¹ tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

² tn Heb “let us look at each other [in the] face.” The expression refers here not to a visit but to meeting in battle. See v. 21.

¹ tn Heb “looked at each other [in the] face.” See the note on the expression “Come on, face me on the battlefield” in v. 17.

¹ tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”

² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”

¹ sn Jehoshabeath is a variant spelling of the name Jehosheba (2 Kgs 11:2).

² tn Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “stole.”

¹ sn The thorn bush in the allegory is Judah. Amaziah’s success had deceived him into thinking he was on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he was not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).