SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:10
¶ El año treinta y siete de Joás rey de Judá, comenzó a reinar Joás hijo de Joacaz sobre Israel en Samaria; y reinó dieciséis años.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 13:10
Verse 10. In the thirty and seventh year] Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, was associated with his father in the government two years before his death. It is this association that is spoken of here. He succeeded him two years after, a little before the death of Elisha. Joash reigned sixteen years, which include the years he governed conjointly with his father. - Calmet.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah, began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria , etc.] But inasmuch as his father began to reign in the twenty third of Joash, and reigned seventeen years, ( 2 Kings 13:1) this king must begin to reign in the thirty ninth or fortieth of Joash; for the reconciling of which it may be observed, that two of the years of his reign may be supposed to be imperfect; or rather that his son reigned two or three years in his lifetime, being raised up before his father’s death to be a saviour of Israel from the Syrians; and so his father lived to see his prayer answered, ( 2 Kings 13:4,5), and reigned sixteen years .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-19 - Jehoash, the king, came to Elisha, to receive his dying counsel an blessing. It may turn much to our spiritual advantage, to attend the sick-beds and death-beds of good men, that we may be encouraged in religion by the living comforts they have from it in a dying hour Elisha assured the king of his success; yet he must look up to God for direction and strength; must reckon his own hands not enough, but go on, in dependence upon Divine aid. The trembling hands of the dyin prophet, as they signified the power of God, gave this arrow more forc than the hands of the king in his full strength. By contemning the sign, the king lost the thing signified, to the grief of the dyin prophet. It is a trouble to good men, to see those to whom they wis well, forsake their own mercies, and to see them lose advantage against spiritual enemies.
Original Hebrew
בשׁנת 8141 שׁלשׁים 7970 ושׁבע 7651 שׁנה 8141 ליואשׁ 3101 מלך 4428 יהודה 3063 מלך 4427 יהואשׁ 3060 בן 1121 יהואחז 3059 על 5921 ישׂראל 3478 בשׁמרון 8111 שׁשׁ 8337 עשׂרה 6240 שׁנה׃ 8141
