"And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent. {put...: Heb. smitten}" — 2 Chronicles 25:22

2 Chronicles 25:22 · KJV

“And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent. {put...: Heb. smitten}”

— 2 Chronicles 25:22

So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, {both} he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which {belongeth} to Judah.

Verse 23

And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. {the corner...: Heb. the gate of it that looketh}

2 Chronicles 25 — Context

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.

So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, {both} he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which {belongeth} to Judah.

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent. {put...: Heb. smitten}

And {he took} all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:36

And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.

2 Chronicles 28:5-6

Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought {them} to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. {Damascus: Heb. Darmesek}

1 Samuel 4:10

And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.