Then. — After the reduction of Edom. The more extended narrative which follows is plainly taken from a different source than that of the brief extract preceding it.
Come, let us look one another in the face. — A challenge to battle, the ground of which might be found in the outrages committed by the Israelite mercenaries on their homeward march. It appears likely, however, that Amaziah, intoxicated by his recent success, aimed at nothing less than the recovery of the Ten Tribes for the house of David. So Josephus (Antt. ix. 9, § 2), who gives what purport to be the letters which passed between the two kings on this occasion.