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     * 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.

     # 17|
     * Beth-shemesh.
     # Jos 21:16; 1Sa 6:9,19,20|