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  1  Azariah's good reign.
 5  He dying a leper, Jotham succeeds.
 8  Zachariah the last of Jehu's generation, reigning ill, is
    slain by Shallum.
13  Shallum, reigning a month, is slain by Menahem.
16  Menahem strengthens himself by Pul.
21  Pekahiah succeeds him.
23  Pekahiah is slain by Pekah.
27  Pekah is oppressed by Tiglath-pileser, and slain by Hoshea.
32  Jotham's good reign.
36  Ahaz succeeds him.


VERSE 1
- A.M. 3194.  B.C. 810.  In the.
   * :8; 14:16,17
- twenty and seventy.
  "This is the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam's partnership in
  the kingdom with his father, who made him consort at his going
  to the Syrian wars.  It is the sixteenth year of Jeroboam's
  monarchy."

- Azariah.
   * :13,30-38; 14:21 2Ch 26:1,3,4
- Uzziah.

VERSE 2
    * :2

VERSE 3
    * 2Ki 12:2,3; 14:3,4 2Ch 26:4


VERSE 4 
 - the high places.
   * :35; 14:4; 18:4 1Ki 15:14; 22:43 2Ch 17:6; 32:12; 34:3


VERSE 5 
 - A.M. 3239-3246.  B.C. 765-758  the Lord.
   * 2Sa 3:29 2Ch 26:16-20 Job 34:19
- so that.
   * 2Ki 5:27 Nu 12:10
- and dwelt.
   * 2Ki 7:3 Le 13:46 Nu 12:14 De 24:8
- Jotham.
   * 2Ch 26:21,23
- judging.
   * 2Sa 8:15; 15:2-4 1Ki 3:9,28 Ps 72:1


VERSE 6 
 - Azariah.
  Dr. Kennicott complains loudly here of "the corruption in the
  name of this king of Judah, who is expressed by four different
  names in this chapter:  Ozriah, Oziah, Ozrihu, and Ozihu.  Our
  oldest Hebrew MS. relieves us here, by reading truly, in
  verses 1, 6, 7, Uzziah, where the printed text is differently
  corrupted.  This reading is called true, 1.  Because it is
  supported by the Syriac and Arabic versions in these three
  verses.  2.  Because the printed text itself has it so in ver.
  32 and 34 of this very chapter.  3.  Because it is so
  expressed in the parallel place in Chronicles:  and 4.
  Because it is not [              ,] Azarias, but [          ,]
  Ozias, (Uzziah) in St. Matthew's genealogy

- they not written.
   * 2Ki 14:18 2Ch 26:5-15


VERSE 7 
 - A.M. 3246.  B.C. 758.
   * 2Ch 26:23 Isa 6:1
- Uzziah.


VERSE 8 
 - A.M. 3231.  B.C. 773.  the thirty.
  "There having been an interregnum for eleven years."

   * :1; 14:16,17,21
- Zachariah.
   * 2Ki 14:29


VERSE 9 
 - as his.  See on ch.
   * 2Ki 10:29,31; 13:2,11; 14:24


VERSE 10 
 - A.M. 3232.  B.C. 772.  smote him.
  "As prophesied.  Am 7:9."

- slew him.
   * :14,25,30; 9:24,31 1Ki 15:28; 16:9,10 Ho 1:4,5


VERSE 11 
 - See on ch.
   * 2Ki 14:28


VERSE 12 
 - A.M. 3120.  B.C. 884.  the word.
   * 2Ki 10:30
- Thy son.
   * 2Ki 13:1,10,13; 14:29
- And so.
   * 2Ki 9:25,26,36,37; 10:10 Nu 23:19 Zec 1:6 Mr 13:31 Joh 10:35
   * Joh 19:24,36,37 Ac 1:16


VERSE 13 
 - A.M. 3232.  B.C. 772.  Uzziah.
   * :1
- Azariah.
   * Mt 1:8,9
- Ozias.  a full month.  Heb. a month of days.
   * 1Ki 16:15 Job 20:15 Ps 55:23 Pr 28:2,17


VERSE 14 
 - Tirzah.
   * 1Ki 14:17; 15:21,33; 16:8,9,15,17
- and smote.  See on ver.
   * :10


VERSE 15 
 - See on ver.
   * :11 1Ki 14:19,29; 22:39


VERSE 16 
 - Tiphzah.
   * 1Ki 4:24
- all the women.
   * 2Ki 8:12 Am 1:13


VERSE 17 
 - A.M. 3232-3243.  B.C. 772-761.  nine.
   * :13


VERSE 18 
 - See on ver.
   * :9


VERSE 19 
 - 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.

   * 1Ch 5:25,26 Isa 9:1
- Menahem.
   * 2Ki 12:18; 16:8; 17:3,4; 18:16 Ho 5:13; 8:9,10; 10:6
- to confirm.
   * 2Ki 14:5 Jer 17:5


VERSE 20 
 - Menahem.
   * 2Ki 23:35
- exacted.  Heb. caused to come forth.  the mighty.
   * Ru 2:1 2Sa 19:32 Job 1:3
- 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 5œ. sterling each) and each of them in some
  proportion to his affluence.

- stayed not.
   * :29; 17:3,4; 18:14-17


VERSE 21 
 - A.M. 3232-3243.  B.C. 772-761.  See on ver.
   * :15

VERSE 22


VERSE 23 
 - A.M. 3243.  B.C. 761.  and reigned two years.
   * 2Ki 21:19 1Ki 15:25; 16:8; 22:51 Job 20:5


VERSE 24 
 - A.M. 3243-3245.  B.C. 761-759.  See on ver.
   * :9,18


VERSE 25 
 - A.M. 3245.  B.C. 759.  Pekah.
   * :27 2Ch 28:6
- a captain.
   * 2Ki 9:5 1Ki 16:9
- conspired.
   * :10; 9:14
- with Argob.
  From the construction 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.


VERSE 26 
 - See on ver.
   * :15


VERSE 27 
 - A.M. 3245-3265.  B.C. 759-739.  the two.
   * :2,8,13,23
- Pekah.
   * :25,37 Isa 7:1,4,9


VERSE 28 
 - evil.  See on ver.
   * :9,18; 13:2,6; 21:2


VERSE 29 
 - 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 1 39:1), did his at Babylon.  He reigned
  nineteen years, from A.M. 3257 to A.M. 3276.

   * 2Ki 16:7 1Ch 5:6,26 2Ch 28:20,21
- Tiglath-pilneser.
   * Isa 9:1
- Ijon.
   * 1Ki 15:20 2Ch 16:4
- Abel-beth-maachah.
   * 2Sa 20:14,15
- Janoah.
   * Jos 16:6
- Janohah.  Kedesh.
   * Jos 19:37; 20:7
- Hazor.
   * Jos 11:1,10,13; 12:19 Jud 4:2
- Gilead.
   * Nu 32:1,40 De 3:15 Am 1:3,13
- Galilee.
   * Jos 20:7 1Ki 9:11 Isa 9:1,2 Mt 4:15,16
- carried them.
   * 2Ki 17:6,23 Le 26:32,38,39 De 4:26,27; 28:25,64,65 Isa 1:7; 7:20


VERSE 30 
 - A.M. 3265.  B.C. 739.  made.  See on ver.
   * :10,25
- and smote.
   * Ho 10:3,7,15
- reigned.
  "After an anarchy for some years."

- in the twentieth.
  "In the fourth year of Ahaz, in the twentieth year after
  Jotham had begun to reign."--Usher.

   * :32,33; 16:1; 17:1 2Ch 28:4-6,16 Isa 7:1-9; 8:6

VERSE 31


VERSE 32 
 - A.M. 3246.  B.C. 758.  Jotham.
   * :7 1Ch 3:12 2Ch 27:1-9 Mt 1:9
- Jotham.  Uzziah.  See on ver.
   * :1,7,13,17,23,27; 14:21 1Ch 3:12
- Azariah.


VERSE 33 
 - A.M. 3246-3262.  B.C. 758-742.  Jerusha.
   * 2Ch 27:1
- Jerushah.


VERSE 34 
 - according.
   * :3,4 2Ch 26:4,5; 27:2


VERSE 35 
 - However.  See on ver.
   * :4; 18:4 2Ch 32:12
- the higher gate.
   * 2Ch 27:3-9


VERSE 36 
 - the rest.  See on ver.
   * :6,7 2Ch 27:4-9


VERSE 37 
 - 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, (3 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.

   * Isa 38:1-22
- began.
   * 2Ki 10:32 1Sa 3:12 Jer 25:29 Lu 21:28
- to send.
   * De 28:48 Ps 78:49 Isa 10:5-7 Jer 16:16; 43:10
- Rezin.
   * 2Ki 16:5 2Ch 28:6 Isa 7:1,8 Ho 5:12,13
- Pekah.  See on ver.
   * :27


VERSE 38 
 - Jotham.  See on
   * 2Sa 7:12 1Ki 1:2; 14:20,31
- Ahaz.
   * 2Ki 16:1 1Ch 3:13 2Ch 28:1 Mt 1:9
- Achaz.



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