
Text -- 2 Kings 14:21 (NET)




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Wesley -> 2Ki 14:21
Wesley: 2Ki 14:21 - -- This Azariah is called Uzziah, 2Ki 15:30, both names signifying the same thing for substance; that, God's help; and this, God's strength. But this was...
This Azariah is called Uzziah, 2Ki 15:30, both names signifying the same thing for substance; that, God's help; and this, God's strength. But this was not done till twelve years after his father's death: so long the government was in the hands of protectors.
JFB -> 2Ki 14:21
JFB: 2Ki 14:21 - -- Or Uzziah (2Ki 15:30; 2Ch 26:1). The popular opposition had been personally directed against Amaziah as the author of their calamities, but it was not...
Clarke -> 2Ki 14:21
Defender -> 2Ki 14:21
TSK -> 2Ki 14:21

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Barnes -> 2Ki 14:21
Barnes: 2Ki 14:21 - -- All the people of Judah - The words imply that the conspiracy was one in which the general mass of the people did not participate. There was no...
All the people of Judah - The words imply that the conspiracy was one in which the general mass of the people did not participate. There was no confusion and trouble as on the occasion of the murder of Joash. Azariah ("the strength of Yahweh"), and Uzziah ("whom Yahweh assists"), were mere variants of one name.
Poole -> 2Ki 14:21
Poole: 2Ki 14:21 - -- Which they did, either in opposition to the conspirators, or to show their affection to the house of David, and that their quarrel was only personal...
Which they did, either in opposition to the conspirators, or to show their affection to the house of David, and that their quarrel was only personal against Amaziah, whom they looked upon as thee author of all their late calamities. This Azariah is called Uziah , 2Ki 15:30 2Ch 26:1 , both names signifying the same thing for substance; that God’ s help , and this God’ s strength .
Haydock -> 2Ki 14:21
Haydock: 2Ki 14:21 - -- Azarias. Hebrew Hazarya. Sometimes printed more correctly Azieu, at others Azrien, (Haydock) by the blundering of transcribers, who have conf...
Azarias. Hebrew Hazarya. Sometimes printed more correctly Azieu, at others Azrien, (Haydock) by the blundering of transcribers, who have confounded the name of the king Ozihu (Azieu or Ozias) with that of the priest Ozrichu. (Azrien.) Carpzovius maintains that Azarias and Usias are two names of the same person. (Crit. p. 789.) But if he should find Carpzovius, Carpzorvius, and Carpzoviu, in the same book, would he not think them the same name erroneously printed? Kennicott, (Dis. i. p. 478.) who observes that the Syriac and Arabic versions have here, as in the sequel, Uzia, and St. Matthew (i. 8.) calls the king Ozias, conformably to 2 Paralipomenon xxvi. 1., &c. The manuscripts also vary. (Kennicott)
Gill -> 2Ki 14:21
Gill: 2Ki 14:21 - -- And all the people of Judah took Azariah,.... Called Uzziah in the next chapter, and so in the book of Chronicles; both names signifying much the same...
And all the people of Judah took Azariah,.... Called Uzziah in the next chapter, and so in the book of Chronicles; both names signifying much the same, the one "the help of the Lord", the other "the strength of the Lord":
(which was sixteen years old;) yet as he began to reign in the twenty seventh year of Jeroboam, 2Ki 15:1 and Jeroboam began to reign in the fifteenth yaer of Amaziah, 2Ki 14:23, he could be but four years of age, for the solution of which; see Gill on 2Ki 15:1,
and made him king instead of his father Amaziah; which was after his death, and not when he fled to Lachish, as Kimchi thinks.

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 14:1-29
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 14:1-29 - --1 Amaziah's good reign.5 His justice on the murderers of his father.7 His victory over Edom.8 Amaziah, provoking Jehoash, is overcome and spoiled.15 J...
MHCC -> 2Ki 14:15-22
MHCC: 2Ki 14:15-22 - --Amaziah survived his conqueror fifteen years. He was slain by his own subjects. Azariah, or Uzziah, seems to have been very young when his father was ...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 14:15-22
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 14:15-22 - -- Here are three kings brought to their graves in these few verses: - 1. Joash king of Israel, 2Ki 14:15, 2Ki 14:16. We attended his funeral once befo...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 14:1-22
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 14:1-22 - --
Reign of Amaziah of Judah (cf. 2 Chron 25). - 2Ki 14:1-7. Length and spirit of his reign, and his victory over the Edomites. - 2Ki 14:1. Amaziah beg...
Constable: 2Ki 9:30--18:1 - --C. The Second Period of Antagonism 9:30-17:41
The kingdoms of Israel and Judah continued without an alli...

Constable: 2Ki 14:1-22 - --6. Amaziah's good reign in Judah 14:1-22
Amaziah reigned over Judah for 29 years (796-767 B.C.)....
