2 Kings 14:15

_AND JUDAH WAS PUT TO THE WORSE BEFORE ISRAEL; AND THEY FLED EVERY MAN TO THEIR TENTS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

15-22 Amaziah survived his conqueror fifteen years. He was slain by his own subjects. Azariah, or Uzziah, seems to have been very young when his father was slain. Though the years of his reign are reckoned from that event, he was not fully made king till eleven years afterwards....

Verse 2 Kings 14:15. _HOW HE FOUGHT WITH AMAZIAH_] The only fighting between them was the battle already mentioned; and this is minutely related in 2 Chronicles 25:21-14....

These two verses (repeated from 2 Kings 13:12) are out of place here, where they interrupt the history of Amaziah’s reign....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 14:1 REIGNS OF AMAZIAH, SON OF JOASH KING OF JUDAH, OVER JUDAH, AND OF JEROBOAM, SON OF JOASH KING OF ISRAEL, OVER ISRAEL. 2 KINGS 14:1 THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH OVER JUDAH. This chapter takes up the history of the kingdom of Judah from the each of...

NOW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF JEHOASH WHICH HE DID, AND HIS MIGHT,.... His valiant and mighty acts which he did in his wars with the Syrians, 2 Kings 13:25, AND HOW HE FOUGHT WITH AMAZIAH KING OF JUDAH; a short account of which is given in the preceding verses: ARE THEY NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL? a book very often mentioned and referred to, as containing the history of the events and transactions of every reign....

6. KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Amaziah's reign over Judah (2 Kings 14:1; 2 Chronicles 25)_ 2. The conflict between Israel and Judah (2 Kings 14:8; 2 Chronicles 25:17) 3. Judah's defeat and Jerusalem taken (2 Kings 14:12) 4. Jehoash and his successor (2 Kings 14:15) 5. Death of Amaziah (2 Kings 14

THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH, SON OF JOASH, KING OF JUDAH. Amaziah was a virtuous king like his father Joash, but not according to the standard of David. This is the judgment of the Deuteronomist, who refers to the law-book of his age, approving the king's forbearance in not punishing the sons of his father's murderers (Deuteronomy 21:1 *, Deuteronomy 24:16). Amaziah was successful in his wars with Edom, whose territory was peculiarly important to Judah as giving access to the Red Sea. The Edomites were defeated in the Valley of Salt as in David's time (2 Samuel 8:13, LXX). There is a place of the same name near Beersheba, but the topography here seems to require it to be in the southern Arabah, S. of the Dead Se

WHICH HE DID. Some codices, with Syriac, read "and all that he did". ARE THEY NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._...

_the rest of the acts of Jehoash_ The repetition of this sentence, which had been given in nearly the same terms in 2 Kings 13:12, shews us that the compiler probably used two documents, and copied from one in the former chapter, and from the other here. The words of this chapter are more in accord with the usual formula. In 2 Kings 13:13 the expression -and Jeroboam sat upon his throne" is not so common as -Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead"....