Discovery Box2 Kings 14:1-2
Context14:1 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
Context14:23 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
Context13:10 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
Context13:2 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
Context25:25 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.
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.
[14:1] 1 sn The name Joahaz is an alternate form of Jehoahaz.
[14:1] 2 sn The referent here is Joash of Judah (see 12:21), not Joash of Israel, mentioned earlier in the verse.
[14:2] 3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[14:2] 4 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
[14:23] 5 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
[13:10] 6 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
[13:2] 7 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
[13:2] 8 tn Heb “walked after.”
[13:2] 9 tn Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”
[25:25] 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).
[25:25] 11 tn Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”
[25:25] 12 tn Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”
[25:26] 13 tn Heb “arose and went to.”
[25:27] 14 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
[25:27] 15 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
[25:27] 16 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
[25:27] 17 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
