2 Kings 14:25

_HE RESTORED THE COAST OF ISRAEL FROM THE ENTERING OF HAMATH UNTO THE SEA OF THE PLAIN, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH HE SPAKE BY THE HAND OF HIS SERVANT JONAH, THE SON OF AMITTAI, THE PROPHET, WHICH WAS OF GATH-HEPHER._ He restored the coast of Israel ... Recovering the territory lost by the successful border incursions of Hazael (see the notes at 2 Kings 10:32), he re-established the ancient boundaries of the ten tribes. This result had been predicted by Jonah, of whom the only account transmitted to us is contained in this passage, and in the book called by his name. The prophecies by which he animated the patriotism of Jerobeam II in his long and severe struggles against the kings of Syria have not been recorded; for, although there was an unbroken series of prophets in Israel, none of them committed their predictions to writing; and Hosea, w

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...

Verse 2 Kings 14:25. _HE RESTORED THE COAST OF ISRAEL_] From the description that is here given, it appears that Jeroboam reconquered all the territory that had been taken from the kings of Israel; so that _Jeroboam the second_ left the kingdom as ample as it was when the ten tribes separated under _Jeroboam the first_....

HE RESTORED THE COAST OF ISRAEL - Jeroboam, in the course of his long reign, recovered the old boundaries of the holy land to the north, the east, and the southeast. The “entering in of Hamath” is spoken of as the northern boundary; the “sea of the plain,” or the Dead Sea, is the southern boundary (see the marginal references): here Israel adjoined on Moab. The entire tract east of Jordan had been lost to Israel in the reign of Jehu and that of Jehoahaz 2 Kings 10:33; 2Ki 13:3, 2 Kings 13:25. All this was now recovered: and not only so, but Moab was reduced Amos 6:14, and the Syrians were in their turn forced to submit to the Jews...

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...

HE RESTORED THE COAST OF ISRAEL,.... The cities upon it, which had been taken away from them by their enemies: FROM THE ENTERING OF HAMATH; which was the northern border of the land of Canaan, the entrance into it from Syria, see Numbers 34:8, UNTO THE SEA OF THE PLAIN: of Jordan, called sometimes the salt sea and the Dead Sea; the lake Asphaltites, as Josephus k, where formerly stood Sodom and Gomorrah: ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH HE SPAKE BY THE HAND OF HIS SERVANT JONAH THE SON OF AMITTAI; the same with him whose prophecy among the small prophets bears this name; and though his prophecy concerning Jeroboam's success and victories is not there, nor anywhere else, recorded at length, yet needed not to be doubted of; this is the first of the prophets spoken of whose books are extant: which wa

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

COAST. border, or boundary. ENTERING OF HAMATH. The pass between Lebanon and Hermon. THE SEA OF THE PLAIN. The Dead Sea. JONAH. Named by the Lord Jesus (Matthew 12:39; Matthew 12:40)....

_He restored the coast of Israel_ Here, as before, -coast" has no reference to -seaboard". The territory which Jeroboam recovered was on the east of the Jordan, and so what is meant is that he acquired again the portions of Gilead and Bashan that had been lost under previous kings. _from the entering of Hamath_ R.V. ENTERING IN OF H. This rendering is as in A.V. of 1 Kings 8:65 and elsewhere. The -entering in of Hamath" or -as men come to Hamath" is frequently mentioned as a northern limit of the Israelite territory, Hamath being a chief city of Syria and under the rulers of Damascus. Cf. Numbers 13:21; Numbers 34:8; Joshua 13:5