2 Kings 14:20

_AND THEY BROUGHT HIM ON HORSES: AND HE WAS BURIED AT JERUSALEM WITH HIS FATHERS IN THE CITY OF DAVID._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

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....

THEY BROUGHT HIM ON HORSES - i. e. they conveyed his body back to Jerusalem in the royal chariot. The combination of relentless animosity against the living prince with the deepest respect for his dead remains is very characteristic of an Oriental people....

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...

AND THEY BROUGHT HIM ON HORSES,.... That is, in a chariot or hearse drawn by horses; though the Jews h suppose he was carried on horses, and that because he worshipped the gods of the Edomites, who were themselves carried on horses; and he was not carried on the shoulders of men, because he neglected to serve the God of Israel, whose mysteries were carried on the shoulders of men: AND HE WAS BURIED AT JERUSALEM WITH HIS FATHERS IN THE CITY OF DAVID; and very probably in the sepulchre of the kings, though his father was not. h Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. paralip. fol. 85. L....

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

_they brought him on horses_ Perhaps this means that they used Amaziah's own chariot to convey the dead body to the royal city. -Horses" in the plural number usually implies a chariot. There was clearly no desire on the part of the conspirators to offer any indignity to the king's dead body. -The city of David" here spoken of is called strangely in 2 Chronicles 25:28 -the city of Judah"....

C. THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH IN THE SOUTH 14:1-22 Amaziah the thistle king, is another example of a good start and a tragic end. The account of his reign moves through three stages: (1) his hopeful beginning (2 Kings 14:1-7); (2) his disastrous defeat (2 Kings 14:8-14); and (3) his treacherous death (2 Kings 14:15-22). Eighth King of Judah AMAZIAH BEN JOASH 796-767 B.C. (_Strength of Yahweb_) 2 Kings 14:1-20; 2 Chronicles 25 Synchronism Amaziah 1 = Joash 2 Contemporary Prophets Sever

REIGNS OF AMAZIAH OF JUDAH AND JEROBOAM OF ISRAEL 1. In the second year of Joash.. king of Israel] Joash of Judah reigned 40 years, and as his thirty-seventh year corresponded to the first year of Joash of Israel (2 Kings 13:10) the accession of his son Amaziah could not coincide with the Israelite king's second year; so that there is some slight error of calculation....