
Text -- 2 Kings 15:27-31 (NET)




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Wesley -> 2Ki 15:30
Wesley: 2Ki 15:30 - -- The meaning is, that he began his reign in the twentieth year after the beginning of Jotham's reign; or, which is the same thing, in the fourth year o...
The meaning is, that he began his reign in the twentieth year after the beginning of Jotham's reign; or, which is the same thing, in the fourth year of Ahaz, son of Jotham.
JFB: 2Ki 15:29 - -- This monarch, who succeeded Pul on the throne of Assyria, is the only one of all the kings who does not give his genealogy, and is therefore supposed ...
This monarch, who succeeded Pul on the throne of Assyria, is the only one of all the kings who does not give his genealogy, and is therefore supposed to have been an usurper. His annals have been discovered in the Nimroud mound, describing this expedition into Syria. The places taken are here mentioned as they occurred and were conquered in the progress of an invasion.

JFB: 2Ki 15:30 - -- He did not, however, obtain possession of the kingdom till about nine or ten years after the perpetration of this crime [HALES].
He did not, however, obtain possession of the kingdom till about nine or ten years after the perpetration of this crime [HALES].

JFB: 2Ki 15:30 - -- Jotham's reign lasted only sixteen years, but the meaning is that the reign of Hoshea began in the twentieth after the beginning of Jotham's reign. Th...
Jotham's reign lasted only sixteen years, but the meaning is that the reign of Hoshea began in the twentieth after the beginning of Jotham's reign. The sacred historian, having not yet introduced the name of Ahaz, reckoned the date by Jotham, whom he had already mentioned (see 2Ch 27:8).
Clarke: 2Ki 15:29 - -- Came Tiglath-pileser - He is supposed to have been the successor of Sardanapalus: Dean Prideaux makes him the same with Arbaces, called by Aelian Th...
Came Tiglath-pileser - He is supposed to have been the successor of Sardanapalus: Dean Prideaux makes him the same with Arbaces, called by Aelian Thilgamus, and by Usher Ninus junior; who, together with Belesis, headed the conspiracy against Sardanapalus, and fixed his seat at Nineveh, the ancient residence of the Assyrian kings; as did Belesis, who is called, in Isa 39:1, Baladan, fix his at Babylon

Clarke: 2Ki 15:29 - -- Took Ijon - These places belonged to Israel; and were taken by Ben-hadad, king of Syria, when he was in league with Asa, king of Judah. See 1Ki 15:2...
Took Ijon - These places belonged to Israel; and were taken by Ben-hadad, king of Syria, when he was in league with Asa, king of Judah. See 1Ki 15:20. They were regained by Jeroboam the second; and now they are taken from Israel once more by Tiglath-pileser. From 1Ch 5:26, we learn that Pul and Tiglath-pileser, kings of Assyria, carried away into captivity the two tribes of Reuben, and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh; all that belonged to Israel, on the other side of Jordan. These were never restored to Israel.

Clarke: 2Ki 15:30 - -- Hoshea the son of Elah - in the twentieth year of Jotham - There are many difficulties in the chronology of this place. To reconcile the whole, Calm...
Hoshea the son of Elah - in the twentieth year of Jotham - There are many difficulties in the chronology of this place. To reconcile the whole, Calmet says: "Hoshea conspired against Pekah, the twentieth year of the reign of this prince, which was the eighteenth after the beginning of the reign of Jotham, king of Judah. Two years after this, that is, the fourth year of Ahaz, and the twentieth of Jotham, Hoshea made himself master of a part of the kingdom, according to 2Ki 15:30. Finally, the twelfth year of Ahaz, Hoshea had peaceable possession of the whole kingdom, according to 2Ki 17:1."
TSK: 2Ki 15:27 - -- am 3245-3265, bc 759-739
the two : 2Ki 15:2, 2Ki 15:8, 2Ki 15:13, 2Ki 15:23
Pekah : 2Ki 15:25, 2Ki 15:37; Isa 7:1, Isa 7:4, Isa 7:9


TSK: 2Ki 15:29 - -- Tiglathpileser : Some suppose Tiglath-pileser to be the son of Sardanapalus, but the learned Prideaux makes him the same as Arbaces the Mede, called b...
Tiglathpileser : Some suppose Tiglath-pileser to be the son of Sardanapalus, but the learned Prideaux makes him the same as Arbaces the Mede, called by Alian, Thelgamus, and by Castor, Ninus Junior, who, with Belesis, headed the conspiracy against Sardanapalus, and fixed his royal seat at Nineveh, as Belesis, called in Scripture Baladan (Isa 39:1), did his at Babylon. He reigned nineteen years, from am 3257 to am 3276. 2Ki 16:7; 1Ch 5:6, 1Ch 5:26; 2Ch 28:20, 2Ch 28:21, Tiglath-pilneser, Isa 9:1
Ijon : 1Ki 15:20; 2Ch 16:4, Abel-beth-maachah, 2Sa 20:14, 2Sa 20:15
Janoah : Jos 16:6, Janohah
Hazor : Jos 11:1, Jos 11:10, Jos 11:13, Jos 12:19; Jdg 4:2
Gilead : Num 32:1, Num 32:40; Deu 3:15; Amo 1:3, Amo 1:13
Galilee : Jos 20:7; 1Ki 9:11; Isa 9:1, Isa 9:2; Mat 4:15, Mat 4:16
carried them : 2Ki 17:6, 2Ki 17:23; Lev 26:32, Lev 26:38, Lev 26:39; Deu 4:26, Deu 4:27, Deu 28:25, Deu 28:64, Deu 28:65; Isa 1:7, Isa 7:20

TSK: 2Ki 15:30 - -- am 3265, bc 739
made : 2Ki 15:10, 2Ki 15:25
and smote : Hos 10:3, Hos 10:7, Hos 10:15
reigned : ""After an anarchy for some years."
in the twentieth :...
am 3265, bc 739
and smote : Hos 10:3, Hos 10:7, Hos 10:15
reigned : ""After an anarchy for some years."
in the twentieth : ""In the fourth year of Ahaz, in the twentieth year after Jotham had begun to reign.""- Usher. 2Ki 15:32, 2Ki 15:33, 2Ki 16:1, 2Ki 17:1; 2Ch 28:4-6, 2Ch 28:16; Isa 7:1-9, Isa 8:6

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Barnes: 2Ki 15:29 - -- Tiglath-Pileser is the first among the Assyrian monarchs of Scripture whom we can certainly identify with a king mentioned in the monuments. Accordi...
Tiglath-Pileser is the first among the Assyrian monarchs of Scripture whom we can certainly identify with a king mentioned in the monuments. According to the Assyrian Dr. he reigned from 745 B.C. to 727 B.C.; and the monuments show us this energetic and powerful prince (though, probably, an usurper), building and repairing palaces, levying armies, and carrying on successful wars against Merodach-Baladan in Babylonia, Rezin at Damascus, Hiram at; Tyre, the Medes, the Armenians, the natives of Northern Mesopotamia, and the Arabs who bordered upon Egypt. His Assyrian name, Tiglat-pal-zira, is composed of the elements tiglat, "adoration,"pal, "son,"and zira, a word of uncertain meaning.
Ijon and Abel-beth-maachah - On the position of some of the towns mentioned in this verse see the marginal reference and Jos 19:36. Janoah is not the Janohah of Jos 16:6 (modern Yanun, southeast of Nablous), but a city (Hunin?) near the Sea of Merom. Gilead is, probably, to be limited here to a small district of Peraea, lying to the east of Lake Merom, and in later times known as Gaulanitis (the reading of Septuagint here). If so, we must suppose two expeditions of Tiglath-Pileser against Pekah, the first mentioned here, and the second recorded in Chronicles and Isaiah (see the marginal reference "q;"2Ki 16:9 note).

Barnes: 2Ki 15:30 - -- Hoshea, the son of Elah - One of Pekah’ s friends, according to Josephus. The twentieth year of Jotham - According to 2Ki 15:33 and ...
Hoshea, the son of Elah - One of Pekah’ s friends, according to Josephus.
The twentieth year of Jotham - According to 2Ki 15:33 and 2Ch 27:1, Jotham reigned only 16 years. See also the suggestion in the margin. Strangely enough, this first year of Hoshea is also called, not the fourth, but the twelfth of Ahaz 2Ki 17:1. The chronological confusion of the history, as it stands, is striking.
Uzziah - i. e. Azariah. See 2Ki 15:1-4.
Poole: 2Ki 15:29 - -- Tiglath-pileser or, Tilgath-pilneser , 2Ch 28:20 , called in heathen authors Phulasar, or Phul-assur , the son of that Pul or Phul above, 2Ki 15:19...
Tiglath-pileser or, Tilgath-pilneser , 2Ch 28:20 , called in heathen authors Phulasar, or Phul-assur , the son of that Pul or Phul above, 2Ki 15:19 .
Abel-beth-maachah of which see 1Ki 15:20 . Janoah ; a city of Ephraim, Jos 16:6 . Kedesh and Hazor ; two cities of Naphtali, Jos 12:22 19:36 .
Gilead all the land beyond Jordan, which was nigher to the Assyrian than the rest.
Galilee to wit, the Upper Galilee, as may be gathered from the following words, all (or, even all )
the land of Naphtali which seem to be added by way of explication or restriction, to show what Galilee he meant, even the Upper, in which Naphtali’ s lot fell. See Poole "Isa 9:1" .

Poole: 2Ki 15:30 - -- Smote him, and slew him which he did more easily effect, because the people were enraged against Pekah, as the man who by his murder of king Pekahiah...
Smote him, and slew him which he did more easily effect, because the people were enraged against Pekah, as the man who by his murder of king Pekahiah the son of Menahem, whom the Assyrian monarch set up and favoured, and by his unnecessary war with Ahaz, had brought the Assyrian upon them, and caused the loss of one half of that kingdom.
In the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah
Quest. How could this be, when Jotham reigned only sixteen years, below, 2Ki 15:33 ?
Answ The meaning is, that he began his reign in the twentieth year after the beginning of Jotham’ s reign; or, which is the same thing, in the fourth year of Ahaz, son of Jotham, as appears from 2Ki 16:2 . But the sacred writer, having not yet made mention of Ahaz, thought it more proper to number Hoshea’ s years by Jotham, of whom he had spoken, than by Ahaz. Besides, as Jotham did reign divers years in his father’ s life, so might Ahaz in Jotham’ s life, and Jotham might for divers reasons (which it is needless here to inquire) resign up the administration of the kingdom wholly into Ahaz’ s hands some years before his death, and therefore might be said to reign but sixteen years, though he lived longer.
Haydock: 2Ki 15:27 - -- Romelia. St. Jerome (ep. 142.) places the birth of Romulus in this year, which preceded the famous Olympiads. But Salien differs that event 14 year...
Romelia. St. Jerome (ep. 142.) places the birth of Romulus in this year, which preceded the famous Olympiads. But Salien differs that event 14 years. (The year before Christ 769.) (Haydock)

Haydock: 2Ki 15:30 - -- In the twentieth year of Joatham. That is, in the twentieth year from the beginning of Joatham's reign. The sacred writer chooses rather to follow ...
In the twentieth year of Joatham. That is, in the twentieth year from the beginning of Joatham's reign. The sacred writer chooses rather to follow here this date, tan to speak of the years of Achaz, who had not yet been mentioned. (Challoner) ---
But Joatham reigned only 16 years, (ver. 33.) so that this was the fourth year of Achaz. (Haydock) ---
Usher says that Osee did not ascend the throne till nine years after the death of Phacee, as he is asserted to have commenced his reign in the twelfth year of Achaz, chap. xvii. 1. But another difficulty arises from the mention of this 20th year, as Phacee would have reigned 22, instead of 20; (ver. 27.) for Joatham only commenced in the second year of Phacee. To reconcile these passages, we may conclude that Osee conspired against the king of Israel in the 18th year of Joatham, gained possession of part of the kingdom in the 20th of the same prince, and of the whole in the 12th of Achaz. (Calmet) ---
The pretended interregnum ought to be rejected, as the murderer of the late king would not delay to ascend the throne. Houbigant adds 10 years to the reign of Phacee, as well as to that of Zacharias: the dates assigned to the kings of Israel being otherwise so much deficient, p. 113.
Gill: 2Ki 15:27 - -- In the fifty second year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria,.... Which was the last year of the ...
In the fifty second year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria,.... Which was the last year of the reign of Azariah:
and reigned twenty years; which was a long reign for an usurper and murderer.

Gill: 2Ki 15:28 - -- And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,.... Not only in committing the above crimes of usurpation and murder, but idolatry, and parti...
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,.... Not only in committing the above crimes of usurpation and murder, but idolatry, and particularly the worshipping of the calves, hinted at in the text.

Gill: 2Ki 15:29 - -- In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,.... Into the land of Israel; he is called by a Jewish chronologer c, Pul-Asir...
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,.... Into the land of Israel; he is called by a Jewish chronologer c, Pul-Asir; so Phul-Assar by Metasthenes d, who says he reigned twenty five years; he very probably was the son of Pul the Assyrian king, mentioned 2Ki 15:19, and is thought to be the same that Aelianus e calls Tilgamos; some think he had the first part of his name from Diglath, or Diglito, by which the river Tigris is called in Pliny f, with which Assyria was washed; and that Pil, or Pul, is Baal, Bel, Jupiter, and Azar is Mars g; of all which his name is composed:
and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah; of which see 1Ki 15:20,
and Janoah; a city in the tribe of Ephraim, Jos 16:6.
and Kedesh, and Hazor; cities in Naphtali: Jos 19:36.
and Gilead; a country beyond Jordan, which belonged to the Reubenites, Gadites, and half tribe of Manasseh:
and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; that is, upper Galilee, which lay in Naphtali:
and carried them captive to Assyria; which was the first captivity of Israel in which half their tribes were carried away.

Gill: 2Ki 15:30 - -- And Hoshea the son or Elab made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead,.... Did by him ...
And Hoshea the son or Elab made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead,.... Did by him as he had done by Pekahiah, 2Ki 15:28, this was measure for measure, as the Jews say: and this he did
in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah; and yet Jotham is said to reign but sixteen years, 2Ki 15:33, this must be reckoned therefore either from the time of his being viceroy, and judging Israel in his father's lifetime, 2Ki 15:5 or this was the fourth year of Ahaz, and the twentieth year, reckoning from the time Jotham began to reign, who is the rather mentioned, because as yet the historian had taken no notice of Ahaz.

Gill: 2Ki 15:31 - -- And the rest of the acts of Pekah,.... Not recorded here, were to be read in the book of chronicles of the kings so often referred to.
And the rest of the acts of Pekah,.... Not recorded here, were to be read in the book of chronicles of the kings so often referred to.

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NET Notes: 2Ki 15:31 Heb “As for the rest of the events of Pekah, and all which he did, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings o...
Geneva Bible -> 2Ki 15:29
Geneva Bible: 2Ki 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel ( k ) came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, ...

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 15:1-38
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 15:1-38 - --1 Azariah's good reign.5 He dying a leper, Jotham succeeds.8 Zachariah the last of Jehu's generation, reigning ill, is slain by Shallum.13 Shallum, re...
MHCC -> 2Ki 15:8-31
MHCC: 2Ki 15:8-31 - --This history shows Israel in confusion. Though Judah was not without troubles, yet that kingdom was happy, compared with the state of Israel. The impe...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 15:8-31
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 15:8-31 - -- The best days of the kingdom of Israel were while the government was in Jehu's family. In his reign, and the next three reigns, though there were ma...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 15:27-29; 2Ki 15:30-31
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 15:27-29 - --
Reign of Pekah. - Pekah the son of Remaliah reigned twenty years.
(Note: As this is apparently at variance not only with 2Ki 15:30, according to w...

Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 15:30-31 - --
Pekah met with his death in a conspiracy organized by Hosea the son of Elah, who made himself king "in the twentieth year of Jotham."There is someth...
Constable -> 2Ki 9:30--18:1; 2Ki 15:27-31
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...
