2 Kings 14:29

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 1 Kings 14:29. _JEROBOAM SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS_] He died a natural death; and was regularly succeeded by his son _Zachariah_, who, reigning badly, was, after _six months_, slain by _Shallum_, who succeeded him, and reigned but _one month_, being slain by _Menahem_, who succeeded him, and reigned _ten years_ over Israel. _Amos_ the prophet lived in the reign of Jeroboam; and was accused by _Amaziah_, one of the idolatrous priests of Beth-el, of having predicted the death of Jeroboam by the sword, but this was a slander: what he did predict, and which came afterwards to pass, may be seen Amos 7:10. The _interregnum_ referred to in the _margin_ cannot be accounted for in a satisfactory manner....

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 JEROBOAM SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, EVEN WITH THE KINGS OF ISRAEL,.... Died, and was buried with them: AND ZACHARIAH HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD: who was of the fourth generation from Jehu, as was promised to him, 2 Kings 10:30....

ZACHARIAH After an interregnum of 11 years. (2 Kings 15:8)....

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

REIGNED. After an interregnum of eleven years. See 2 Kings 15:8....

_Zachariah_[R.V. ZECHARIAH] _his son_ This was the fourth in descent from Jehu, and according to the promise of God (2 Kings 10:30) that family was allowed so long a rule, but now the dynasty came to an end....

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 ...