Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary

The war with Joash, king of Israel. - Instead of following the counsel of the prophet, Amaziah consulted (sc., with his public officials or courtiers), and challenged King Joash of Israel to war. The challenge, and the war which followed, are also narrated in Kg2 14:8-14 in agreement with our account, and have been already commented upon at that place, where we have also considered the occasion of this war, so fatal to Amaziah and the kingdom of Judah, on account of which has been handed down to us only in the supplementary narrative of the Chronicle. לך in Ch2 25:17 for לכה, come, as in Num 23:13 and Jdg 19:13. - In Ch2 25:20 the chronicler explains Amaziah's refusal to hear the warning of Joash before the war with him, by a reference to the divine determination: "For it (came) of God (that Amaziah still went to war), that He might deliver them (the men of Judah) into the hand, because they had sought the gods of Edom." בּיד נתן, to give into the power of the enemy. - In Ch2 25:23, הפּונה שׁער is a manifest error for הפּנּה (Kg2 14:13). Were הפּונה, the gate that turns itself, faces (in some direction), correct, the direction would have to be given towards which it turned, e.g., Eze 8:3. - וגו וכל־הזּהב, Ch2 25:24, still depends upon תּפשׂ, Ch2 25:23 : and (took away) all the gold, etc. In Kg2 14:14, ולקח is supplied.