So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was severe #– #thirty thousand of the Israelite foot soldiers fell.
King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, , at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash took him to Jerusalem and broke down 180 metres of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. ,
The rest of the events of Jehoash’s reign, along with all his accomplishments and the power he had to wage war against Judah’s King Amaziah, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.