Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 14:8
Sent — This challenge he sent, from self — confidence, and a desire of advancing his glory. But he that is fond either of fighting or going to law, will probably be the first that repents it.
Sent — This challenge he sent, from self — confidence, and a desire of advancing his glory. But he that is fond either of fighting or going to law, will probably be the first that repents it.
Verse 2 Kings 14:8. _COME, LET US LOOK ONE ANOTHER IN THE FACE._] This was a real declaration of war; and the ground of it is most evident from this circumstance: that the _one hundred thousand_ men...
Amaziah’s success against Edom had so elated him that he thought himself more than a match for his northern neighbor. The grounds of the quarrel between them were furnished by the conduct of the hired...
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...
LOOK ONE ANOTHER, &C. Figure of speech _Tapeinosis_ (App-6), meaning very much more (verses: 2 Kings 14:11)....
Amaziah's challenge to Joash king of Israel. Answer of Joash. Defeat of Amaziah. Death of Joash (2 Chronicles 25:17-24) 8. _Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash_ The Chronicler gives a history ante...
COME, LET US LOOK ONE ANOTHER IN THE FACE— Josephus, in his account of this transaction, tells us, that Amaziah wrote an imperious letter to the king of Israel, commanding him and his people to pay th...
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...
_THEN AMAZIAH SENT MESSENGERS TO JEHOASH, THE SON OF JEHOAHAZ SON OF JEHU, KING OF ISRAEL, SAYING, COME, LET US LOOK ONE ANOTHER IN THE FACE._ Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash ... king of Israel. T...
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...
LET US.. FACE] i.e. meet face to face in battle. If Judah at this time was a vassal of the northern kingdom (see on 1 Kings 22:2), Amaziah's motive in courting a quarrel with his neighbour was probabl...
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...
THEN. — After the reduction of Edom. The more extended narrative which follows is plainly taken from a different source than that of the brief extract preceding it. COME, LET US LOOK ONE ANOTHER IN TH...
אָ֣ז שָׁלַ֤ח אֲמַצְיָה֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל ־יְהֹואָ֨שׁ...
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...
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, (d) let us look one another in the face. (d) Let us fight hand to hand, and try it by battle, a...
Let us see one another. This was a challenge to fight. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- The interviews of ambitious kings are often baneful. (Haydock) --- Abner said in the same sense, "Let the young men...
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...
THEN AMAZIAH SENT MESSENGERS TO JEHOASH THE SON OF JEHOAHAZ THE SON OF JEHU KING OF ISRAEL,.... The occasion of it was this, when Amaziah dismissed the hired soldiers of Israel they were displeased, a...
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. Ver. 8. _Then Amaziah sent._] Being puffed up with his rec...
_Let us look one another in the face_ Let us try our valour and strength in battle. Being flushed with his late great victory over the Edomites, and incensed by the injury which the dismissed, disgust...
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...
Then Amaziah, during the last part of his reign, after he had shown symptoms of laxity toward idolatry, SENT MESSENGERS TO JEHOASH, THE SON OF JEHOAHAZ, SON OF JEHU, KING OF ISRAEL, SAYING, COME, LET...
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...
Let us fight personally, and with our armies. This challenge he sent, partly upon the late and great injuries done by the Israelites to his people, 2 CHRONICLES 25:10,13, and partly from self-confiden...
2 Kings 14:8 Amaziah H558 sent H7971 (H8804) messengers H4397 Jehoash H3060 son H1121 Jehoahaz H3059 son H1121 Jehu...
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...
_Come, let us look one another in the face._ LOOKING IN THE FACE Let us look one another in the face.” Such was the message of a king to a king. The whole transaction was hypocritical, and we cannot...
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...
2 Chronicles 25:17; 2 Kings 14:11; 2 Samuel 2:14; Proverbs 13:10;...