2 Kings 15:1

_IN THE TWENTY AND SEVENTH YEAR OF JEROBOAM KING OF ISRAEL BEGAN AZARIAH SON OF AMAZIAH KING OF JUDAH TO REIGN._ In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam. Since Amaziah, the father of Azariah, lived only until the fifteenth year of Jeroboam II (cf. 2 Kings 14:17; 2 Kings 14:23), there is a difficulty in reconciling that fact with the chronological statement in the first verse of this chapter. It may be removed, however; and a satisfactory explanation given by assuming, what seems exceedingly probable, that Jeroboam had reigned in conjunction with his father for eleven or twelve years, and on the demise of his father, reigned alone. Thus, his reign would have a double commencement. According to the former view, this would be his 27th year; according to the latter, his 15th year. Or,

1-7 Uzziah did for the most part that which was right. It was happy for the kingdom that a good reign was a long one....

CHAPTER XV _Azariah begins to reign over Judah, and acts well, but does not_ _remove the high places_, 1-4. _He becomes leprous, and dies, after having reigned_ fifty-two _years; and Jotham, his son, reigns in his stead_, 5-7. _Zachariah reigns over Israel, and acts wickedly; and Shallum_ _conspires against him and slays him, after he had reigned_ six _months_, 8-12. _Shallum reigns one month, and is slain by Menahem_, 13-15. _Menahem's wicked and oppressive reign; he subsidizes the king_ of Assyria, and dies, after having reig

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 15:1 REIGNS OF AZARIAH AND JOTHAM OVER JUDAH; AND OF ZACHARIAH, SHALLUM, MENAHEM, PEKAHIAH, AND PEKAH OVER ISRAEL. 2 KINGS 15:1 THE REIGN OF AZARIAH OVER JUDAS. The writer now more and more compresses his narrative. Into a single chapter he crowds the events of seven reigns, covering the space of nearly seventy years. He is consequent

IN THE TWENTY AMD SEVENTH YEAR OF JEROBOAM KING OF ISRAEL BEGAN AZARIAH THE SON ON AMAZIAH KING OF JUDAH TO REIGN. Now Amaziah lived only to the fifteenth year of Jeroboam, 2 Kings 14:2 in which year, and not in his twenty seventh, it might be thought Azariah his son began to reign. There are various ways taken to remove this difficulty, not to take notice of a corruption of numbers, "twenty seven for seventeen", which some insist on. Ben Gersom and Abarbinel are of opinion, that those twenty seven years of Jeroboam's reign are not to be understood of what were past, but of what were to come before the family of Jehu was extinct; and that he reigned twenty six years, and his son six months, which made twenty seven imperfect years. Others suppose that Jeroboam reigned with his father eleven or twelve years before his death; and, reckoning from the different periods of his reign, this was...

CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Reign and death of Azariah (Uzziah) (2 Kings 15:1; 2 Chronicles 26)._ 2. Reign and death of Zachariah (2 Kings 15:8) 3. Reign and death of Shallum (2 Kings 15:13) 4. Menahem, King of Israel (2 Kings 15:16) 5. Pul of Assyria and Menahem (2 Kings 15:19; 1 Chronicles 5:26) 6. Death of Menahem ...

REIGN OF AZARIAH (UZZIAH). The long reign of this king passes almost unnoticed in this book. He is called Uzziah elsewhere in Chronicles and Isaiah, except 1 Chronicles 3:12. 2 KINGS 15:5. Yahweh smote the king with leprosy. The isolation of men thus afflicted was enforced (2 Kings 7:3; see Leviticus 13:46; Numbers 5:3). It is uncertain what is meant by a several house. The Heb. word means free. Azariah reigned but did not rule during his latter years. If most of the sixteen years of Jotham's reign fell within his father's lifetime, the

TWENTY AND SEVENTH YEAR. So in 2 Chronicles 26:1. Azariah being then sixteen (2 Kings 15:2), and therefore only three on the death of his father Arnaziah. Hence, there were thirteen years interregnum (16. 3. 13). Arnaziah died in the fourteenth year of Jeroboam. Therefore Azariah began to reign in the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam (13. 14. 27). This is the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam's partnership with his father on his going to the Syrian wars. Azariah. Uzziah. See note on 2 Kings 14:21....

2 Kings 15:1-7. Reign of Azariah king of Judah. He is smitten with leprosy and lives apart. His death (2 Chronicles 24:1-23) 1. _In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam_… began _Azariah_ This statement cannot be made to accord with the numbers given in the previous Chapter s. In 2 Kings 14:1 it is said that Amaziah the father of Azariah began to reign in the second year of Joash king of Israel. Now Joash (2 Kings 13:10) reigned sixteen years. Therefore he lived fourteen years contemporary with Amaziah. And the latter lived ...

IN THE TWENTY AND SEVENTH YEAR— _In the fourteenth year,_ according to Houbigant. Dr. Lightfoot is of opinion, that the difficulties in the chronology of this place may be settled, by supposing that there was an interregnum, wherein the throne was vacant eleven or twelve years between the death of Amaziah and the inauguration of his son Azariah, who, being left an infant of four years old when his father died, was committed to the guardianship of the grandees of the nation, who, during his minority, took the administration of public affairs upon themselves, and when he was become sixteen devolved it upon him; so that when he became in full possession of the throne it was in the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam. _Azariah_ in 2 Chronicles 26:1 is called _Uzziah;_ and by St. Matthew, _Ozias;_ words of pretty much the same signification....