2 Kings 14:15,16

Now the rest... — Comp. 2 Kings 13:12, where the reign of Jehoash is already summed up, though not altogether in the same phraseology. The compiler probably found 2 Kings 14:15, in their present position in the document from which he derived the entire section, 2 Kings 14:8; a document which was not the same as that upon which 2 Kings 13 depends, as appears from the differences of language in the two passages.

The two verses are almost necessary here as a suitable introduction of the statement of 2 Kings 14:17, that Amaziah survived Jehoash by fifteen years.