¹⁷Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and he sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come,^m let us face one another.ⁿ ¹⁸And Joash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thorn bush that is in Lebanon has sent to the cedar which is in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ But a wild animal of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush. ¹⁹Look, you say that you have struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up to boast. Now remain at your home. Why stir up disaster that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

²⁰But Amaziah did not listen, for it was from God that he might give them into the hand of enemies, because they sought the gods of Edom. ²¹So Joash the king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah the king of Judah faced one another^o at Beth-Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. ²²And Judah was defeated before Israel, and each man fled to his tent. ²³And Joash the king of Israel captured Amaziah the king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-Shemesh. And they brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits. ²⁴Then with all the gold and silver, all the objects found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, the storehouses of the house of the king, and the hostages,^p he returned to Samaria.

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Footnotes

mThis translation follows the Qere reading
nLiterally “let us look at faces”
oLiterally “looked at one another’s faces”
pLiterally “the sons of the pledges”