2 Kings 15:32-38

Jotham’s Reign over Judah

15:32 In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah, Uzziah’s son Jotham became king over Judah. 15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ¹  His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. 15:34 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. ²  15:35 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple.

15:36 The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ³  15:37 In those days the Lord prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah. ⁴  15:38 Jotham passed away ⁵  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz replaced him as king.

2 Kings 15:1

Azariah’s Reign over Judah

15:1 In the twenty-seventh year of King Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Amaziah’s son Azariah became king over Judah.

2 Kings 3:12

3:12 Jehoshaphat said, “The Lord speaks through him.” ⁶  So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to visit him.

Isaiah 1:1

Heading

1:1 Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem ⁷  that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz during the time when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah reigned over Judah. ⁸ 

Hosea 1:1

Superscription

1:1 ⁹ This is the word of the Lord which was revealed to Hosea ¹⁰  son of Beeri during the time when ¹¹  Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah ruled Judah, ¹²  and during the time when Jeroboam son of Joash ¹³  ruled Israel. ¹⁴ 

Micah 1:1

Introduction

1:1 This is the prophetic message that the Lord gave to ¹⁵  Micah of Moresheth. He delivered this message ¹⁶  during the reigns of ¹⁷  Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The prophecies pertain to ¹⁸  Samaria ¹⁹  and Jerusalem. ²⁰ 

Matthew 1:9

1:9 Uzziah the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

² tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

³ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jotham, and that which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin…and Pekahiah….”

⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁶ tn Heb “the word of the Lord is with him.”

⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁸ tn Heb “The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.”

⁹ tc The textual problems in Hosea are virtually unparalleled in the OT. The Masoretic Text (MT), represented by the Leningrad Codex (c. a.d. 1008), which served as the basis for both BHK and BHS, and the Aleppo Codex (c. a.d. 952), are textually corrupt by all accounts and have a multitude of scribal errors. Many medieval Masoretic mss preserve textual variants that differ from the Leningrad and Aleppo Codices. The Qumran materials (4QXII^c,d,g) contain numerous textual variants that differ from the MT; unfortunately, these texts are quite fragmentary (frequently in the very place that an important textual problem appears). The textual tradition and translation quality of the LXX and the early Greek recensions (Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion) is mixed; in some places they are inferior to the MT but in other places they preserve a better reading. The textual apparatus of BHK and BHS contains many proposed emendations based on the ancient versions (Greek, Syriac, Latin, Aramaic) that often appear to be superior readings than what is preserved in the MT. In numerous cases, the MT readings are so difficult morphologically, syntactically, and contextually that conservative conjectural emendations are necessary to make sense of the text. Most major English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV, RSV, NEB, NAB, NASB, NIV, TEV, NKJV, NJPS, NJB, NRSV, REB, NCV, CEV, NLT) adopt (either occasionally or frequently) textual variants reflected in the versions and occasionally adopt conservative conjectural emendations proposed in BHK and/or BHS. However, many of the textual problems in Hosea are so difficult that the English versions frequently are split among themselves. With this in mind, the present translation of Hosea must necessarily be viewed as only preliminary. Further work on the text and translation of Hosea is needed, not only in terms of the NET Bible but in Hosea studies in general. The text of Hosea should be better clarified when the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project completes work on the book of Hosea. For further study of textual problems in Hosea, see D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 5:228-71.

¹⁰ tn Heb “The word of the Lord which was to Hosea.” The words “This is” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹¹ tn Heb “in the days of” (again later in this verse). Cf. NASB “during the days of”; NIV “during the reigns of”; NLT “during the years when.”

¹² tn Heb “Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.”

¹³ sn Joash is a variation of the name Jehoash. Some English versions use “Jehoash” here (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, NLT).

¹⁴ tn Heb “Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “The word of the Lord which came to.”

¹⁶ tn The words “he delivered this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁷ tn Heb “in the days of” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

¹⁸ tn Heb “which he saw concerning.”

¹⁹ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²⁰ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.