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 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ⁵  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ⁶ 

[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.”

[25:1]  ⁵ tn Or “against.”

[25:1]  ⁶ sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).