2 Kings 14:1-2

Amaziah’s Reign over Judah

14:1 In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Joash son of Joahaz, ¹  Joash’s ²  son Amaziah became king over Judah. 14:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ³  His mother ⁴  was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 14:23

Jeroboam II’s Reign over Israel

14:23 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Judah’s King Amaziah, son of Joash, Jeroboam son of Joash became king over Israel. He reigned for forty-one years in Samaria. ⁵ 

2 Kings 13:10

Jehoash’s Reign over Israel

13:10 In the thirty-seventh year of King Joash’s reign over Judah, Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria ⁶  for sixteen years.

2 Kings 13:2

13:2 He did evil in the sight of ⁷  the Lord. He continued in ⁸  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins. ⁹ 

2 Kings 25:25-28

25:25 But in the seventh month ¹⁰  Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, ¹¹  came with ten of his men and murdered Gedaliah, ¹²  as well as the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah. 25:26 Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for ¹³  Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ¹⁴  day of the twelfth month, ¹⁵  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹⁶  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹⁷  from prison. 25:28 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ¹⁸  the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

¹ sn The name Joahaz is an alternate form of Jehoahaz.

² sn The referent here is Joash of Judah (see 12:21), not Joash of Israel, mentioned earlier in the verse.

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

⁵ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁶ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁸ tn Heb “walked after.”

⁹ tn Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”

¹⁰ sn It is not altogether clear whether this is in the same year that Jerusalem fell or not. The wall was breached in the fourth month (= early July; Jer 39:2) and Nebuzaradan came and burned the palace, the temple, and many of the houses and tore down the wall in the fifth month (= early August; Jer 52:12). That would have left time between the fifth month and the seventh month (October) to gather in the harvest of grapes, dates and figs, and olives (Jer 40:12). However, many commentators feel that too much activity takes place in too short a time for this to have been in the same year and posit that it happened the following year or even five years later when a further deportation took place, possibly in retaliation for the murder of Gedaliah and the Babylonian garrison at Mizpah (Jer 52:30). The assassination of Gedaliah had momentous consequences and was commemorated in one of the post exilic fast days lamenting the fall of Jerusalem (Zech 8:19).

¹¹ tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”

¹² tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”

¹³ tn Heb “arose and went to.”

¹⁴ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

¹⁵ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹⁶ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

¹⁷ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.

¹⁸ tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”