2 Kings 15:8--17:6
thirty-eighth <07970> [A.M. 3231. B.C. 773. the thirty.]
"There having been an interregnum for eleven years."
Zechariah <02148> [Zachariah.]
ancestors <01> [as his.]
assassinated <05221 06905> [A.M. 3232. B.C. 772. smote him.]
"As prophesied. Am 7:9."
king <04191 04427> [slew him.]
fulfillment .... word <01697> [A.M. 3120. B.C. 884. the word.]
[Thy son.]
[And so.]
Uzziah's <05818> [A.M. 3232. B.C. 772. Uzziah.]
[Azariah.]
[Ozias. a full month. Heb. a month of days.]
Tirzah <08656> [Tirzah.]
attacked <05221> [and smote.]
[Tiphzah.]
pregnant women <02030> [all the women.]
thirty-ninth <08672> [A.M. 3232-3243. B.C. 772-761. nine.]
Pul ........... him <06322> [A.M. 3233. B.C. 771. Pul.]
Prideaux supposes that this Pul was the father of the famous Sardanapalus, who was called Sardan with his father's name Pul annexed, as was frequent in those times, making Sardanpul: thus Merodach, king of Babylon, was Merodach-Baladan, because he was the son Baladan. This Pul began to reign according to Usher, A.M. 3237, the fifth year of Menahem; and he is supposed to be the same that reigned in Nineveh, when Jonah preached in that city.
Menahem <04505> [Menahem.]
solidify <02388> [to confirm.]
Menahem <04505> [Menahem.]
got <03318> [exacted. Heb. caused to come forth. the mighty.]
each one <0259 0376> [of each man, etc.]
Or, rather, as Bishop Patrick renders, "to give to the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each man," i.e., in his army. It may be supposed, that Menahem compelled "the mighty men of wealth" to give much more a-piece than this sum, (somewhat about 5Å“. sterling each) and each of them in some proportion to his affluence.
stay ..... land <05975 0776> [stayed not.]
[A.M. 3232-3243. B.C. 772-761.]
year ..................... years <08141> [A.M. 3243. B.C. 761. and reigned two years.]
[A.M. 3243-3245. B.C. 761-759.]
Pekah <06492> [A.M. 3245. B.C. 759. Pekah.]
officer <07991> [a captain.]
conspired <07194> [conspired.]
Argob <0709> [with Argob.]
From the contstruction of the Hebrew text, it would appear that Argob and Arieh were slain with the king, and that the fifty Gileadites were conspirators with Pekah.
<08147> [A.M. 3245-3265. B.C. 759-739. the two.]
Pekah <06492> [Pekah.]
evil <07451> [evil.]
Tiglath-pileser <08407> [Tiglath-pileser.]
Some suppose Tiglath-pileser to be the son of Sardanapalus: but the learned Prideaux makes him the same as Arbaces the Mede, called by ’lian, 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 (Is 39:1), did his at Babylon. He reigned nineteen years, from A.M. 3257 to A.M. 3276.
[Tiglath-pilneser.]
Ijon <05859> [Ijon.]
Abel Beth Maacah <062> [Abel-beth-maachah.]
Janoah <03239> [Janoah.]
[Janohah. Kedesh.]
Hazor <02674> [Hazor.]
Gilead <01568> [Gilead.]
Galilee <01551> [Galilee.]
deported <01540> [carried them.]
conspired against <07194> [A.M. 3265. B.C. 739. made.]
assassinated <05221> [and smote.]
king <04427> [reigned.]
"After an anarchy for some years."
twentieth <06242> [in the twentieth.]
"In the fourth year of Ahaz, in the twentieth year after Jotham had begun to reign."--Usher.
Jotham <03147> [A.M. 3246. B.C. 758. Jotham.]
Jotham <03147> [Jotham. Uzziah.]
[Azariah.]
Jerusha <03388> [A.M. 3246-3262. B.C. 758-742. Jerusha.]
[Jerushah.]
father <01> [according.]
high places ................ high places <01116> [Howbeit.]
Upper Gate <05945 08179> [the higher gate.]
rest <03499> [the rest.]
days <03117> [A.M. 3262. B.C. 742. In those days.]
"At the end of Jotham's reign." This Jotham died at forty-one. He was too great a blessing to be continued long to such an unworthy people. His death was a judgment, especially considering the character of Ahaz, his son and successor: for we read, (16:3) Ahaz made his son pass through the fire. This son may have been Hezekiah, who served the Lord, and whose prayer in sickness was most graciously herd and answered.
prompted <02490> [began.]
prompted <07971> [to send.]
Rezin <07526> [Rezin.]
Pekah <06492> [Pekah.]
Jotham <03147> [Jotham.]
Ahaz <0271> [Ahaz.]
[Achaz.]
seventeenth <07651> [seventeenth.]
Ahaz <0271> [Ahaz.]
do ... pleased <06213 03477> [did not.]
<03212> [he walked.]
son .................... Israelites <01121> [made his son.]
horrible <08441> [according.]
hills <01389> [on the hills.]
Rezin <07526> [A.M. 3262. B.C. 742. Rezin.]
unable ... conquer <03201 03898> [but could not.]
recovered <07725> [recovered.]
Elat ......... there ..... Elat <0359> [Elath. Heb. Eloth.]
Tiglath-pileser <08407> [Tiglath-pileser. Heb. Tilgath-pileser.]
[Tilgath-pilneser. I am thy servant.]
rescue <03467> [and save.]
silver <03701> [the silver.]
royal .......... king <04428> [to the king.]
attacked <05927> [A.M. 3264. B.C. 740. went up.]
[Foretold.]
Damascus <01834> [Damascus. Heb. Dammesek. Kir.]
Josephus informs us that this place was in Upper Media; and it is clear that it must be understood of some city or country in the dominions of the king of Assyria. It is highly probable that it was the country on the banks of the river [Kuros,] Cyrus, or Kyrus, now called Kur, or Kura; and we find cities called Cyropolis, Cyrena, and Carine, mentioned by writers as lying in these parts, and a part of Media, called Syromedia, as it is thought, from the Syrians who were carried captive thither.
executed Rezin <07526 04191> [slew Rezin.]
saw ... altar .............. altar <04196 07200> [saw an altar.]
blueprint <08403> [the pattern.]
built ... altar <01129 04196> [built an altar.]
Uriah .................. Uriah <0223> [Urijah.]
approached <07126> [approached.]
offered <05927> [offered thereon.]
offered <06999> [he burnt.]
peace offerings <08002> [of his peace-offerings. Heb. of the peace-offerings which were his.]
bronze <05178> [the brasen.]
altar ................ altar ................ altar <04196> [the altar.]
morning <01242> [the morning.]
King .............. burnt sacrifice ....... royal burnt sacrifices ...... burnt sacrifice .................... burnt sacrifice <04428 05930> [the king's burnt.]
<01239> [for me to enquire by.]
took off <07112> [A.M. 3265. B.C. 739. cut off.]
frames <04526> [borders.]
Sea <03220> [sea.]
awning <04329> [the covert.]
There are a great number of conjectures concerning this covert; but it is probable that it was either, as Locke supposes, a sort of shelter or canopy erected for the people on the sabbath when the crowd was too great for the porch to contain them; or, as Dr. Geddes supposes, a seat, covered with a canopy, placed on an elevation, for the king and his court, when they attended public worship.
[A.M. 3262-3278. B.C. 742-726.]
buried <06912> [A.M. 3278. B.C. 726. buried.]
Hezekiah <02396> [Hezekiah.]
[Ezekias.]
<08147> [A.M. 3274. B.C. 730. In the twelfth.]
In ch. 15:30, this is said to be "the twentieth year of Jotham," which Calmet thus reconciles: "Hosea conspired against Pekah, the 20th year of the reign of this prince, which was the 18th of Jotham, king of Judah. Two years after this, that is, the 4th of Ahaz and the 20th of Jotham, Hosea made himself master of a part of the kingdom, according to ch. 15:30. Finally, the 12th year of Ahaz, Hosea had peaceable possession of the whole kingdom, agreeably to ch. 17:1."
Hoshea <01954> [Hoshea.]
"After an interregnum, ch. 15:30; 18:9."
kings <04428> [but not as the kings.]
Shalmaneser <08022> [Shalmaneser.]
This was the son and successor of Tiglath-pileser: he reigned 14 years, from A.M. 3276 to 3290.
[Shalman. king of Assyria.]
Hoshea <01954> [and Hoshea.]
paid <07725> [gave. Heb. rendered. presents. or, tribute.]
discovered ..... planning a revolt <04672 07195> [A.M. 3279. B.C. 725. found conspiracy.]
king ................ King .... Egypt ........... king ...... king <04428 04714> [king of Egypt.]
sent <05927> [brought.]
imprisoned <0631 01004> [bound him.]
king <04428> [A.M. 3281-3283. B.C. 723-721. the king.]
three years <08141 07969> [three years.]
king ... Assyria ........... Assyria <04428 0804> [A.M. 3283. B.C. 721. the king of Assyria.]
[foretold. carried.]
Halah <02477> [Halah.]
Medes <04074> [the Medes.]
