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 t... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. ACCORDING TO ALL: i.e. he began well, but see 2 Chronicles 26:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAVE THAT. Compare 1 Kings 12:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SMOTE. Jehovah smote. Chronicles comes in here to explain why. See 2 Chronicles 26:16, and note _on_ "Kings" in title of. Kings (p. 447). A LEPER. One of nine afflicted with leprosy. See note on Exodus 4:6. No reason is given here, but it is given in Chronicles according to the object of t... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REST OF THE ACTS. For details see 2 Chronicles 26:1. The writings of HOSEA, JOEL, Amos, and JONAH belong to this period: from the latter days of Joash (king of Judah) to the end of Uzziah. See the notes on the events in these reigns in their respective prophecies. They foretell the doom of Judah... [ Continue Reading ]
AZARIAH. In the year of his death (649) Isaiah had his vision (Isaiah 6:1; John 12:4)), when the "voice" from the Temple prophesied the Dispersion (see the Structure of Isaiah). Uzziah had been driven from the Temple to. lazar house, when Isaiah saw the vision of the Temple in heaven. SLEPT WITH HI... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRTY AND EIGHT YEAR. Compare with 2 Kings 14:29. Jeroboam died in the fourteenth year of Azariah (or Uzziah). There must have been an interregnum of twenty-four years. See App-50 and comments on 2 Kings 15:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'_. App-44. AS. according as. SINS Hebrew. _Chata._ See App-44. MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. See note on 1 Kings 14:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
SMOTE HIM: as prophesied (Amos 7:9).... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SPAKE. Compare 2 Kings 10:30 and Hosea 1:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
UZZIAH. See note on 2 Kings 14:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
TIRZAH. The capital before Samaria (1 Kings 14:17. 1Ki 14:15, 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 16:8). Now _Telluzah,_ about nine miles north of Samaria.... [ Continue Reading ]
AZARIAH. See note on 2 Kings 14:21. MENAHERN. Their names are mentioned, together with Rezin (2 Kings 16:9), in Tiglath-pileser's inscriptions.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SINS. Some codices, with Aram, and Septuagint, read "any of the sins". See note on 1 Kings 14:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUL. Thought to be the same as Tiglath-pileser (a throne name). But see 1 Chronicles 5:26. CAME AGAINST. Probably at invitation of Menahern. Compare Hosea 5:13; Hosea 7:11; Hosea 8:9. TALENTS. See App-51.... [ Continue Reading ]
EXACTED. Judah usually bought off foreign invaders (2 Kings 12:18; 2 Kings 16:8; 2 Kings 18:15). THERE. then. Hebrew. _sham._ Compare Judges 5:11.Psalms 14:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIFTIETH YEAR. From 2 Kings 15:17 there appears to be an interregnum of some months.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEKAH. Compare Isaiah 7:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWENTY YEARS. See App-50. The Assyrian inscription shows only four years. But why is writing on stone always assumed to be correct, and on parchment, always wrong? There were two chronological mistakes on the Duke of Cambridge's monument erected in Whitehall, London, which were the subject of. corre... [ Continue Reading ]
TIGLATH PILESER. See note on "Pul", 2 Kings 15:19. ABEL-BETH-MAACHAH... GILEAD. These names are mentioned in Tiglath's own inscriptions. CARRIED THEM CAPTIVE. This deportation took place in 734 B.C., and is referred to in Isaiah 9:1; Isaiah 9:2. father, for whom he reigned four years. See note on... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL: i.e. all [the good].... [ Continue Reading ]
HE BUILT. Compare 2 Chronicles 27:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REST. Compare 2 Chronicles 27:2. ARE THEY NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
REZIN. The war which broke out in the reign of Ahaz was already threatening. Compare Isaiah 7:1.... [ Continue Reading ]