SECOND YEAR OF JOASH. According to 2 Kings 13:10, Joash (king of Israel) began to reign in the thirty-seventh year of Joash (king of Judah). If Arnaziah began in the second year of Joash (king of Israel), he would have reigned only thirty-nine years. But he reigned forty (2 Kings 12:1). All depends... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Heb Jehovah. AS JOASH HIS FATHER. He began well and ended badly.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HIGH PLACES. See 1 Kings 15:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF MOSES. See note on Exodus 17:14, and App-47. EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. SIN. Hebrew. _chata_ '. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SLEW. The account in Chronicles supplies additional particulars. See 2 Chronicles 25:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
LOOK ONE ANOTHER, &C. Figure of speech _Tapeinosis_ (App-6), meaning very much more (verses: 2 Kings 14:11).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THISTLE, or briar or thorn. Hebrew. _choch,_ rendered _thistle_ here, and in 2 Chronicles 25:18; Job 31:40. _thorn_ in 2 Chronicles 33:11.Job 41:2.Proverbs 26:9; Song of Solomon 2:2.Hosea 9:6. and _bramble_ in Isaiah 34:13. SENT. For. similar fable, s [ Continue Reading ]
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; Joshua 21:16). Afterward associated with idolatry, and now with defeat.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT TO THE WORSE. smitten.... [ Continue Reading ]
CUBITS. See App-51.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOSTAGES. Hebrew sons of the securities. Occurs only here and in 2 Chronicles 25:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH HE DID. Some codices, with Syriac, read "and all that he did". ARE THEY NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._... [ Continue Reading ]
FIFTEEN YEARS: i.e. from 729-714. See App-50.... [ Continue Reading ]
LACHISH. On the Philistine border in Judah (Joshua 15:39). Now _Tel-el-Hesy,_ and recently excavated with important results. SLEW HIM THERE. See note on 2 Kings 8:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
AZARIAH. Called also Uzziah (2 Kings 15:13 2 Kings 15:30, 2 Kings 15:32; 2 Chronicles 26:1.Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 6:1.Hosea 1:1.Amos 1:1.Zechariah 14:5;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUILT. rebuilt or fortified. This implies the subjugation of Edom. ELATH. On the Red Sea. Compare 1 Kings 9:26, and, for its eventual loss, 2 Kings 16:6. SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF ISRAEL. Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Septuagint, read "over Israel". FORTY AND ONE YEARS. See note on 2 Kings 15:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. See note on 1 Kings 14:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
COAST. border, or boundary. ENTERING OF HAMATH. The pass between Lebanon and Hermon. THE SEA OF THE PLAIN. The Dead Sea. JONAH. Named by the Lord Jesus (Matthew 12:39; Matthew 12:40).... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT ANY SHUT UP, NOR ANY LEFT. not any [place] strengthened or fortified. See note on Exodus 23:5.Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Kings 14:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
RECOVERED DAMASCUS, AND HAMATH. Both were included in Solomon's kingdom (1 Kings 4:21). Damascus lost to Rezin (1 Kings 11:23). This recovery did not last long. See Amos 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
REIGNED. After an interregnum of eleven years. See 2 Kings 15:8.... [ Continue Reading ]