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15:1 In the twenty-seventh <07651> <06242> year <08141> <08141> of King <04428> Jeroboam’s <03379> reign over <04427> Israel <03478>, Amaziah’s <0558> son <01121> Azariah <05838> became king <04428> over Judah <03063>. 15:2 He was sixteen <06240> <08337> years <08141> old <01121> when he began <01961> to reign <04427>, and he reigned <04427> for fifty-two <08147> <02572> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>. His mother’s <0517> name <08034> was Jecholiah <03203>, who was from Jerusalem <03389>. 15:3 He did <06213> what the Lord <03068> approved <05869> <03477>, just as <0834> his father <01> Amaziah <0558> had done <06213>. 15:4 But <07535> the high places <01116> were not <03808> eliminated <05493>; the people <05971> continued <05750> to offer sacrifices <02076> and burn incense <06999> on the high places <01116>. 15:5 The Lord <03068> afflicted <05060> the king <04428> with an illness; he suffered <01961> from a skin disease <06879> until <05704> the day <03117> he died <04194>. He lived <03427> in separate <02669> quarters <01004>, while his son <01121> Jotham <03147> was in <05921> charge of the palace <01004> and ruled over <08199> the people <05971> of the land <0776>. 15:6 The rest <03499> of the events <01697> of Azariah’s <05838> reign, including all <03605> his accomplishments <06213>, are recorded <03789> in <05921> the scroll <05612> called the Annals <03117> <01697> of the Kings <04428> of Judah <03063>. 15:7 Azariah <05838> passed away <01> <05973> <07901> and was buried <06912> with <05973> his ancestors <01> in the city <05892> of David <01732>. His son <01121> Jotham <03147> replaced <08478> him as king <04427>. 15:8 In the thirty-eighth <08083> <07970> year <08141> <08141> of King <04428> Azariah’s <05838> reign <04427> over Judah <03063>, Jeroboam’s <03379> son <01121> Zechariah <02148> became king over <05921> Israel <03478>. He reigned in Samaria <08111> for six <08337> months <02320>. 15:9 He did <06213> evil <07451> in the sight <05869> of the Lord <03068>, as <0834> his ancestors <01> had done <06213>. He did not <03808> repudiate <05493> the sinful <02403> ways of Jeroboam <03379> son <01121> of Nebat <05028> who <0834> encouraged <02398> Israel <03478> to sin <02398>. 15:10 Shallum <07967> son <01121> of Jabesh <03003> conspired <07194> against <05921> him; he assassinated <05221> him in Ibleam and took his place <08478> as king <04427>. 15:11 The rest <03499> of the events <01697> of Zechariah’s <02148> reign are recorded <03789> in <05921> the scroll <05612> called the Annals <03117> <01697> of the Kings <04428> of Israel <03478>. 15:12 His <01931> assassination brought to fulfillment <01696> the Lord’s <03068> word <01697> to <0413> Jehu <03058>, “Four <07243> generations of your descendants <01121> will rule <03427> over <05921> Israel <03478>.” That is exactly <03651> what happened <01961>. 15:13 Shallum <07967> son <01121> of Jabesh <03003> became king <04427> in the thirty-ninth <08672> <07970> year <08141> <08141> of King <04428> Uzziah’s <05818> reign over Judah <03063>. He reigned <04427> for one month <03117> <03391> in Samaria <08111>. 15:14 Menahem <04505> son <01121> of Gadi <01424> went up <05927> from Tirzah <08656> to Samaria <08111> and attacked <05221> Shallum <07967> son <01121> of Jabesh <03003>. He killed <04191> him and took his place <08478> as king <04427>. 15:15 The rest <03499> of the events <01697> of Shallum’s <07967> reign, including the conspiracy <07195> he organized <07194>, are recorded <03789> in <05921> the scroll <05612> called the Annals <03117> <01697> of the Kings <04428> of Israel <03478>.

• 2Ki 15:1-7 -- Azariah's Reign over Judah
• 2Ki 15:8-16 -- Zechariah's Reign over Israel

• ASSYRIA

  [isbe] ASSYRIA - a-sir'-i-a: I. GEOGRAPHY II. EARLY HISTORY III. CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS IV. POPULATION V. TRADE AND LAW VI. ART VII. MECHANICS VIII. FURNITURE, POTTERY AND EMBROIDERY IX. LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND SCIENCE X. GOVERNM...
  

• Shallum

  [ebd] retribution. (1.) The son of Jabesh, otherwise unknown. He "conspired against Zachariah, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead" (2 Kings 15:10). He reigned only "a month of days in Samaria" ...
  [smith] (retribution). The fifteenth king of Israel, son of Jabesh, conspired against Zachariah, killed him, and brought the dynasty of Jehu to a close, B.C. 770. Shallum, after reigning in Samaria for a month only, was in his turn ...
  [nave] SHALLUM 1. King of Israel, 2 Kin. 15:10, 13-15. 2. Husband of Huldah, the prophetess, 2 Kin. 22:14; 2 Chr. 34:22. 3. Son of Sisamai, 1 Chr. 2:40, 41. 4. See: Jehoahaz, 3. 5. Grandson of Simeon, 1 Chr. 4:25. 6. Son of Za...
  

• Zachariah

  [ebd] remembered by the Lord. (1.) Son of Jeroboam II., king of Israel. On the death of his father there was an interregnum of ten years, at the end of which he succeeded to the throne, which he occupied only six months, having be...
  [nave] ZACHARIAH 1. Son of Jeroboam, and last of the house of Jehu, 2 Kin. 10:30; 14:29; 15:8-12. 2. Grandfather of Hezekiah, 2 Kin. 18:2; 2 Chr. 29:1.
  

• Menahem

  [ebd] conforting, the son of Gadi, and successor of Shallum, king of Israel, whom he slew. After a reign of about ten years (B.C. 771-760) he died, leaving the throne to his son Pekahiah. His reign was one of cruelty and oppressio...
  [isbe] MENAHEM - men'-a-hem (menachem, "one who comforts"; Manaem; 2 Ki 15:14-22): 1. Accession and Reign: Son of Gadi and 16th king of Israel. He reigned 10 years. Menahem was probably the officer in charge of the royal troops in ...
  [smith] (comforter), son of Gadi, who slew the usurper Shallum, and seized the vacant throne of Israel. B.C. 772. His reign, which lasted ten years, is briefly recorded in (2 Kings 15:14-22) He maintained the calf-worship of Jerob...
  [nave] MENAHEM, king of Israel, 2 Kin. 15:13-22.
  

• UZZIAH; (AZARIAH)

  [isbe] UZZIAH; (AZARIAH) - u-zi'-a, oo-zi'-a (`uzziyah (2 Ki 15:13,30; Hos 1:1; Am 1:1; Zec 14:5), `uzziyahu (2 Ki 15:32,34; Isa 1:1; 6:1; 7:1; 2 Ch 26:1 ff; 27:2); also called `azaryah (2 Ki 14:21; 15:1,7; 1 Ch 3:12), 'azaryahu (2...
  

• Uzziah

  [ebd] a contracted form of Azari'ah the Lord is my strength. (1.) One of Amaziah's sons, whom the people made king of Judah in his father's stead (2 Kings 14:21; 2 Chr. 26:1). His long reign of about fifty-two years was "the most ...
  [nave] UZZIAH 1. Called Azariah. King of Judah, 2 Kin. 14:21; 15:1, 2; 2 Chr. 26:1, 3. Rebuilds Elath, 2 Kin. 14:22; 2 Chr. 26:2. Reigns righteously, 2 Kin. 15:3; 2 Chr. 26:4, 5. Defeats the Philistines, 2 Chr. 26:6, 7. Takes t...
  

• ZECHARIAH, BOOK OF

  [isbe] ZECHARIAH, BOOK OF - 1. The Prophet 2. His Times and Mission 3. Contents and Analysis 4. The Critical Question Involved 5. The Unity of the Book 6. Conclusion LITERATURE Few books of the Old Testament are as difficult of int...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• JABESH

  [ebd] dry. (1.) For Jabesh-Gilead (1 Sam. 11:3,9,10). (2.) The father of Shallum (2 Kings 15:10, 13, 14), who usurped the throne of Israel on the death of Zachariah.
  [smith] (dry). Father of Shallum, the fifteenth king of Israel. (2 Kings 15:10,13,14) Jabesh-gilead, or Jabesh in the territory of Gilead. In its widest sense Gilead included the half tribe of Manasseh, (1 Chronicles 27:21) as...
  

• SHALLUM (2)

  [isbe] SHALLUM (2) - (shallum, shallum, "the requited one" (2 Ki 15:10-15)): The 15th king of Israel, and successor of Zechariah, whom he publicly assassinated in the 7th month of his reign. Nothing more is known of Shallum than th...
  

• UZZA; UZZAH

  [isbe] UZZA; UZZAH - uz'-a, uz'-a ('uzzah (2 Sam 6:6-8), otherwise `uzza' meaning uncertain): (1) One of those who accompanied the ark on its journey from Kiriath-jearim toward David's citadel (2 Sam 6:3-8, "Uzzah" = 1 Ch 13:7-11, ...
  

• ZECHARIAH (2)

  [isbe] ZECHARIAH (2) - (zekharyah, zekharydhu, "Yah has remembered" (2 Ki 14:29; 15:8-12); Zacharias, the King James Version Zachariah): Son of Jeroboam II, and 14th king of Israel. He was the 4th of the line of Jehu, and reigned s...
  

• Jotham

  [isbe] JOTHAM - jo'-tham (yotham, "Yahweh is perfect"; Ioatham): (1) The youngest son of Gideon-Jerubbaal, the sole survivor of the massacre of his seventy brothers by Abimelech (Jdg 9:5), and (by Jdg 8:22) the legitimate ruler of ...
  [smith] (Jehovah is upright). The youngest son of Gideon, (Judges 9:5) who escaped from the massacre of his brethren. (B.C. after 1256.) His parable of the reign of the bramble is the earliest example of the kind. The son of King Uz...
  [nave] JOTHAM 1. Son of Gideon, Judg. 9:5, 57. Rebukes the Shechemites in the parable of the trees, Judg. 9:7-21. 2. Son of Azariah, king of Judah, 2 Kin. 15:5-7, 32, 38; 1 Chr. 3:12; 2 Chr. 26:21-23; 27. Piety of, 2 Chr. 27. T...
  

• Influence

  [nave] INFLUENCE. Evil 1 Kin. 11:3, 4; 1 Kin. 15:25, 26; 1 Kin. 21:25; 1 Kin. 22:51-53; 2 Kin. 8:16-18, 25-27; 2 Kin. 17:21, 22; 2 Kin. 21:9; 2 Chr. 21:5, 6; 2 Chr. 22:3-5; 2 Chr. 33:9; Prov. 22:24, 25; Prov. 29:12; Jer. 17:1, 2;...
  

• AZARIAH

  [smith] (whom the Lord helps) a common name in Hebrew, and especially in the families of the priests of the line of Eleazar, whose name has precisely the same meaning as Azariah. It is nearly identical, and is often confounded, with ...
  

• Samaria

  [smith] (watch mountain). This city is situated 30 miles north of Jerusalem and about six miles to the northwest of Shechem, in a wide basin-shaped valley, six miles in diameter, encircled with high hills, almost on the edge of the g...
  [nave] SAMARIA 1. City of, built by Omri, 1 Kin. 16:24. Capital of the kingdom of the ten tribes, 1 Kin. 16:29; 22:51; 2 Kin. 13:1, 10; 15:8. Besieged by Ben-hadad, 1 Kin. 20; 2 Kin. 6:24-33; 7. The king of Syria is led into, by...
  

• Jecholiah

  [isbe] JECHOLIAH - jek-o-li'-a (yekholyahu; 2 Ki 15:2 the King James Version = yekholyah, Qere in 2 Ch 26:3, "Yah is able" or "Yah has been able"): The mother of King Uzziah (Azariah) of Judah. The Revised Version (British and Amer...
  [smith] (strong through Jehovah) wife of Amaziah king of Judah, and mother of Azariah or Uzziah his successor. (2 Kings 15:2) (B.C. 824-807.)
  [nave] JECHOLIAH, called also Jecoliah. Mother of Azariah, 2 Kin. 15:2; 2 Chr. 26:3.
  

• Gadi

  [isbe] GADI - ga'-di (gadhi, "fortunate"): The father of Menahem, one of the kings of Israel who reached the throne through blood (2 Ki 15:14,17).
  [smith] A Gadite, father of Menahem a king of Israel. (2 Kings 15:14,17)
  [nave] GADI, father of Menahem, 2 Kin. 15:14, 17.
  

• Regicide

  [nave] REGICIDE Of Ehud, Judg. 3:16-23. Of Saul, 2 Sam. 1:16. Of Ish-bosheth, 2 Sam. 4:5-8. Of Nadab, 1 Kin. 15:27-29. Of Elah, 1 Kin. 16:9-11. Of Joram, 2 Kin. 9:24. Of Ahaziah, 2 Kin. 9:27. Of Joash, 2 Kin. 12:20, 21. Of ...
  

• Jeroboam

  [ebd] increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), "an Ephrathite," the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of Zereda, and while still ...
  

• King Azariah (Uzziah)

  

• King Zechariah

  

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