Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Kings 14:12
Being unsatisfied in the ground and manner of the quarrel, and discouraged by their king's idolatry, and smitten by God with a spirit of fear.
Being unsatisfied in the ground and manner of the quarrel, and discouraged by their king's idolatry, and smitten by God with a spirit of fear.
The author of Chronicles notes that Amaziah’s obstinacy, and his consequent defeat and captivity, were judgments upon him for an idolatry into which he had fallen after his conquest of Edom 2Ch 25:14,...
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...
PUT TO THE WORSE. smitten....
_every man to their tents_ See above on 2 Kings 13:5....
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...
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...
_AND JUDAH WAS PUT TO THE WORSE BEFORE ISRAEL; AND THEY FLED EVERY MAN TO THEIR TENTS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
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...
TO THEIR TENTS. — Hebrew text, _to his tent_; so the LXX. and Syriac. Hebrew margin, to _his tents_; so Vulg., and Targum, and Chronicles. The meaning is that the enemy disbanded, as usually after a g...
וַ יִּנָּ֥גֶף יְהוּדָ֖ה לִ פְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל...
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...
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...
AND JUDAH WAS PUT TO THE WORSE BEFORE ISRAEL,.... Could not face them; but, as Josephus d says, a sudden fear and consternation seized them, and before they joined battle with the Israelites, turned t...
And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents. Ver. 12. _And Judah was put to the worse; and they fled._] Josephus saith that before the fight they began to fle...
_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...
And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, suffering a decisive defeat; AND THEY FLED EVERY MAN TO THEIR TENTS....
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 14:12 Judah H3063 defeated H5062 (H8735) H6440 Israel H3478 man H376 fled H5127 (H8799) tent...
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 Kings 22:36; 1 Samuel 4:10; 2 Samuel 18:17...
Tents — Josephus says, when they were to engage, they were struck with such a terror, that they did not strike a stroke, but every man made the best of his way....