2 Kings 14:23

_IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF AMAZIAH THE SON OF JOASH KING OF JUDAH JEROBOAM THE SON OF JOASH KING OF ISRAEL BEGAN TO REIGN IN SAMARIA, AND REIGNED FORTY AND ONE YEARS._ Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel. He had been previously associated with his father for several years in the government. AND REIGNED FORTY AND ONE YEARS. Ewald, Thenius, and others, maintain that an error in the Hebrew numeral letters has occurred here-the duration of Jeroboam's reign having been originally stated at 52 or 53 instead of 41 years. But such a supposition is exceedingly improbable, as it implies the mistake to be considered as not limited to one, but to have extended to several letters (see the notes at 2 Kings 15:8)....

23-29 God raised up the prophet Jonah, and by him declared the purposes of his favour to Israel. It is a sign that God has not cast off his people, if he continues faithful ministers among them. Two reasons are given why God blessed them with those victories: 1. Because the distress was very great, which made them objects of his compassion. 2. Because the decree was not yet gone forth for their destruction. Many prophets there had been in Israel, but none left prophecies in writing till this age, and their prophecies are part of the Bible. Hosea began to prophesy in the reign of this Jeroboam. At the same time Amos prophesied; soon after Micah, then Isaiah, in the days of Ahaz and Hezekiah. Thus God, in the darkest and most degenerate ages of the church, raised up some to be burning and shining lights in it; to their own age, by their preaching and living, and a few by their writings, to...

JEROBOAM - This is the only instance, in the history of either kingdom, of a recurrent royal appellation. We can scarcely doubt that Jeroboam II was named after the great founder of the Israelite kingdom by a father who trusted that he might prove a sort of second founder. Perhaps the prophecy of Jonah (see 2 Kings 14:25) had been already given, and it was known that a great deliverance was approaching....

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...

IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF AMAZIAH, THE SON OF JOASH KING OF JUDAH, JEROBOAM THE SON OF JOASH KING OF ISRAEL BEGAN TO REIGN IN SAMARIA,.... So that he reigned fourteen or fifteen years contemporary with him; for Amaziah reigned twenty nine years: [AND REIGNED] FORTY AND ONE YEARS; Josephus says i forty, giving only the round number. i Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 9.) c. 10. sect. 1....

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

REIGN OF JEROBOAM II. The Deuterono-mistin a short section gives the dry details of Jeroboam's reign, the most famous of Israel's kings. During his forty-one years he completely freed Israel from the Syrians, and extended his territory from the entering in of Hamath to the Dead Sea. Israel's flourishing condition during his reign is depicted by Amos, who saw the hollowness underlying the apparent prosperity of his age. Hamath (Isaiah 10:9 *) lies far N. of the Holy Land, on the Orontes in Syria. It was the limit of the kingdom of David and Solomon (2 Samuel 8:9; 1 Kings 8:65). The words _which had belonged_ to Judah (2 Kings 14:28) are v

OF ISRAEL. Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Septuagint, read "over Israel". FORTY AND ONE YEARS. See note on 2 Kings 15:8....

Accession of Jeroboam II. king of Israel. His conquests and death (Not in Chronicles) 23. _In the fifteenth year of Amaziah_ Cf. verses 1 and 17. Amaziah reigned 29 years, and he lived 15 years after the death of Jehoash king of Israel. Therefore the numbers are in sufficiently close agreement, though we cannot be certain of the position which Amaziah occupied after his defeat by Jehoash at the battle of Beth-shemesh....

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THE KINGDOMS AT HIGH TIDE 2 Kings 13:10 to 2 Kings 15:7 Help came to Israel in the midst of the Aramean oppression from an unexpected quarter. In 802 B.C. the Assyrian king Adadnirari III attacked Damascus and inflicted serious casualties on Benhadad II. From that point on, Israel began to gradually recover her lost territories and emerge from the half century of humiliating submission to Damascus. The text under study in this chapter deals with (1) the period of recovery (2 Kings 13:10 to 2 Kings 14:22); and (2) the heyday period of both Israel and Judah ...