Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 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.
21. they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah ] R.V. he and Amaziah looked one another in the face. The historian by a kind of irony takes up Amaziah’s phrase (2Ch 25:17) and gives it a fresh application. Cp. the double application (by a similar irony) of the phrase, ‘lift up the head” in Gen 40:13; Gen 40:19.
at Beth-shemesh ] Cp. 1Ch 6:59 [44 Heb. ] (note).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
[See comments on 2Ch 25:20]
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
saw. See note on “see” (2Ch 25:17)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
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. 2Ch 25:17
Bethshemesh: Jos 21:16, 1Sa 6:9, 1Sa 6:19, 1Sa 6:20