Amaziah would not hear, because God blinded and hardened him to his destruction, for his abominable and ridiculous idolatry, 2 Chronicles 25:20. Jehoash went up, to wit, into the kingdom of Judah, carrying the war into his enemy's country. Which belongeth to Judah; which is added to distinguish it from that Beth-shemesh in Issachar, and another in Naphtali, Joshua 19:22,38.
Jehoash did not wait to be attacked. Invading Judaea from the west, and so ascending out of the low coast tract, he met the army of Amaziah at Beth-shemesh (see Joshua 19:21 note), about 15 miles from...
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;...
THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH, SON OF JOASH, KING OF JUDAH. Amaziah was a virtuous king like his father Joash, but not according to the standard of David. This is the judgment of the Deuteronomist, who refers...
BETH-SHERNESH. house of the sun, on frontier of Judah and Dan, fifteen miles west of Jerusalem (Joshua 15:10). _Now Ain Shems. A_ city of the priests (Joshua 21:9; Joshua 21:13;...
_But Amaziah would not hear_ Bearing out the proverb -Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat". _Jehoash king of Israel went up_ When the king of Israel saw that Amaziah would persist, he apparently ma...
C. THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH IN THE SOUTH 14:1-22 Amaziah the thistle king, is another example of a good start and a tragic end. The account of his reign moves through three stages: (1) his hopeful beginni...
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 Adadni...
_BUT AMAZIAH WOULD NOT HEAR. THEREFORE JEHOASH KING OF ISRAEL WENT UP; AND HE AND AMAZIAH KING OF JUDAH LOOKED ONE ANOTHER IN THE FACE AT BETH-SHE'MESH, WHICH BELONGETH TO JUDAH._ But Amaziah would n...
REIGNS OF AMAZIAH OF JUDAH AND JEROBOAM OF ISRAEL 1. In the second year of Joash.. king of Israel] Joash of Judah reigned 40 years, and as his thirty-seventh year corresponded to the first year of Jo...
BETHSHEMESH] In the Lowland (Shephelah) of Judah, 15 m. W. of Jerusalem....
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 14 AMAZIAH’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH V1 Amaziah, Joash’s son, began to rule as the king of *Judah. That happened durin...
LOOKED ONE ANOTHER IN THE FACE — _i.e._, encountered one another; joined battle. BETH-SHEMESH. — The modern _Ain-shems,_ north of which is a great plain now called _Wâdy-es-Surâr,_ in which the encou...
וְ לֹא ־שָׁמַ֣ע אֲמַצְיָ֔הוּ וַ יַּ֨עַל יְהֹו
AMAZIAH OF JUDAH B.C. 796-783 (?) 2 Kings 14:1 "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Matthew 26:52 THE fate of Amaziah ("Jehovah is strong"), son of Joash of Judah, resembles...
THE DYNASTY OF JEHU Jehoahaz 814-797 2 Kings 13:1 JOASH 797-781 2 Kings 13:10; 2 Kings 14:8 JEROBOAM II 781-740...
THE PENALTY OF PRIDE 2 Kings 14:1 There were good traits in Amaziah's character, such as humanity to the children of his father's murderers, and his willingness to forfeit the aid of the army of Isra...
Turning back to Judah, we find Amaziah on the throne. "He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet...." The constantly repeated story of limitation in loyalty is told again. Success atte...
_Saw, or fought, ver. 8., and chap. xxiii. 29. Bethsames was in the tribe of Dan, (Calmet) but belonging to the king of Juda._...
The twenty five years of Amaziah's reign may be brought into a narrow compass. His history, as is here related, consisted chiefly in restoring order in the temple service, by which it is said he did r...
But not merely this. "Elisha died and they buried him" (2 Kings 13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no do...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17. Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of Jehovah...
BUT AMAZIAH WOULD NOT HEAR,.... Being given up to a judicial hardness of heart through pride; for this was of God, and by his overruling providence, that he might be punished for his idolatry, in sett...
But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah. Ver. 11. _But Amaziah...
_Amaziah would not hear_ Being blinded and hardened by God to his destruction, as a punishment of his abominable and ridiculous idolatry, 2 Chronicles 25:10. _Therefore Jehoash went up_ Namely, into t...
1 Amaziah his good reigne. 5 His iustice on the murderers of his father. 7 His victory ouer Edom. 8 Amaziah prouoking Iehoash, is ouercome and spoiled. 15 Ieroboam succeedeth Iehoash. 17 Amaziah...
But Amaziah, still puffed up in his own mind, WOULD NOT HEAR, he paid no attention to the warning. THEREFORE JEHOASH, KING OF ISRAEL, WENT UP, carrying the campaign into the enemy's country; AND HE AN...
AMAZIAH KING IN JUDAH...
AMAZIAH RULING IN JUDAH (vv.1-20) Joash had only reigned briefly in Israel before Amaziah the son of the other Joash (or Jehoash) became king in Judah. He was 25 when crowned king and reigned 29 yea...
8-14 For some time after the division of the kingdoms, Judah suffered much from the enmity of Israel. After Asa's time, it suffered more by the friendship of Israel, and by the alliance made with the...
2 Kings 14:11 Amaziah H558 heed H8085 (H8804) Jehoash H3060 king H4428 Israel H3478 out H5927 (H8799) Amaziah...
THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH, KING OF JUDAH C. 796-767 BC (2 KINGS 14:1). As with many kings of Judah Amaziah's reign was seen as ‘right in the eyes of YHWH', although with a decided ‘but'. The ‘but' explains...
CONTENTS: Reign of Amaziah over Judah. War between Israel and Judah. Reign of Jeroboam in Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Amaziah, Jehoash, Jeroboam, Jonah, Azariah. CONCLUSION: Those who are too eager,...
2 Kings 14:2. _His mother's name was Jehoaddan._ The mothers of the kings of Judah are mostly mentioned by name, but those of the kings of Israel are seldom named so expressly; for the kings of Israel...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 14:11 BETH-SHEMESH. This town on the northwest border of Judah, about 20 miles (32 km) by road from Jerusalem, guarded an important pass from the Philistine plain. Judah’s defe...
AMAZIAH IN JUDAH AND JEROBOAM II. IN ISRAEL CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 14:1. AMAZIAH, KING OF JUDAH—Historian returns to the records concerning _Judah_. 2 Kings 14:3. YET NOT LIKE DAVI...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 14:1 REIGNS OF AMAZIAH, SON OF JOASH KING OF JUDAH, OVER JUDAH, AND OF JEROBOAM, SON...
Now we're coming again to Amaziah who became the king in Israel at the death of his father, who was assassinated at the end of chapter twelve. Now in the second year that Joash the son of Jehoahaz was...
1 Samuel 6:9; 2 Chronicles 25:16; 2 Chronicles 25:20; Joshua 19:38;...