2 Kings 15:12

_AND THE REST OF THE ACTS OF ZACHARIAH, BEHOLD, THEY ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

8-31 This history shows Israel in confusion. Though Judah was not without troubles, yet that kingdom was happy, compared with the state of Israel. The imperfections of true believers are very different from the allowed wickedness of ungodly men. Such is human nature, such are our hearts, if left to themselves, deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. We have reason to be thankful for restraints, for being kept out of temptation, and should beg of God to renew a right spirit within us....

Verse 2 Kings 15:12. _THIS_ WAS _THE WORD OF THE LORD - UNTO JEHU_] God had promised to Jehu that his sons should sit on the throne of Israel _to the fourth generation_; and so it came to pass, for _Jehoahaz,_ _Joash, Jeroboam_, and _Zachariah_, succeeded Jehu, to whom this promise was made. But because he executed the Divine purpose with an uncommanded _cruelty_, therefore God _cut his family short_, according to his word by Hosea, _I will avenge the blood of Jezreel_ _upon the house of Jehu; and I will cause to cease the kingdom of_ _the house of Israel_, Hosea 1:4....

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

THIS WAS THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPAKE UNTO JEHU,.... Which was now fulfilled in the short reign of Zachariah: SAYING, THY SONS SHALL SIT ON THE THRONE OF ISRAEL UNTO THE FOURTH GENERATION; see 2 Kings 10:30, and so it came to pass; as every word of the Lord does, not one fails; for after Jehu reigned Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam the second, and Zachariah, all descendants of Jehu....

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 ...

LAST KINGS OF ISRAEL. Zechariah, the son of Jeroboam, reigned but six months (2 Kings 15:8), and was killed by Shallum, probably, as LXX (L) reads, in Ibleam, instead of the Heb., which is doubtfully rendered before the people (2 Kings 15:10). After a month 2 Kings 15:8 reign Shallum was killed by Menahem (2 Kings 15:14). 2 KINGS 15:19. PUL, THE KING OF ASSYRIA, has been identified with Tiglath-pileser III (58f., 70f.), who ravaged Northern Israel (2

HE SPAKE. Compare 2 Kings 10:30 and Hosea 1:4....

_the word of the Lord which he spake unto Jehu_ For the promise, see above, 2 Kings 10:30. _thy sons_ The R.V. brings the words -to the fourth generation" forward in the verse and places them after -sons" thus making the sentence conform, as it does in the original, to the order of the words in the promise (2 Kings 10:30)....

THY SONS SHALL SIT ON THE THRONE OF ISRAEL UNTO THE FOURTH GENERATION— God had promised Jehu, that for executing his will upon the house of Ahab, he would continue the crown of Israel in his family for four generations; and accordingly Jehoahaz, Joash, Jehoram, and Zechariah succeed him; but because he did it not so much in obedience to the divine commands, as to satisfy his private ambition, and in a method of cruelty quite abhorrent to the divine nature, God cut his family short as soon as he had fulfilled his promise to him, and thereby accomplished the prophesy of Hosea: _I will avenge the blood Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel,_ chap. 2 Kings 1:4. And perhaps it was in remembrance of this promise, as well as of the prophesy which confined the kingdom to Jehu's family for four generations only, that Shallum was encouraged to a...