SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:25
El restituyó los términos de Israel desde la entrada de Hamat hasta el mar de la llanura, conforme a la palabra del SEÑOR Dios de Israel, la cual había él hablado por su siervo Jonás hijo de Amitai, profeta que fue de Gat-hefer.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 14:25
Verse 25. He restored the coast of Israel] From the description that is here given, it appears that Jeroboam reconquered all the territory that had been taken from the kings of Israel; so that Jeroboam the second left the kingdom as ample as it was when the ten tribes separated under Jeroboam the first.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. He restored the coast of Israel , etc.] The cities upon it, which had been taken away from them by their enemies: from the entering of Hamath ; which was the northern border of the land of Canaan, the entrance into it from Syria, (see Numbers 34:8), unto the sea of the plain : of Jordan, called sometimes the salt sea and the Dead Sea; the lake Asphaltites, as Josephus f157 , where formerly stood Sodom and Gomorrah: according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai ; the same with him whose prophecy among the small prophets bears this name; and though his prophecy concerning Jeroboam’s success and victories is not there, nor anywhere else, recorded at length, yet needed not to be doubted of; this is the first of the prophets spoken of whose books are extant: which was of Gathhepher ; a city in the tribe of Zebulun, ( Joshua 19:13), which contradicts a notion of the Jews, that no prophet came out of Galilee, when the very first of those that were the penmen of the books of prophecies was from thence, (see John 7:52).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 23-29 - God raised up the prophet Jonah, and by him declared the purposes of his favour to Israel. It is a sign that God has not cast off his people, if he continues faithful ministers among them. Two reasons ar given why God blessed them with those victories: 1. Because the distress was very great, which made them objects of his compassion. 2 Because the decree was not yet gone forth for their destruction. Man prophets there had been in Israel, but none left prophecies in writin till this age, and their prophecies are part of the Bible. Hosea bega to prophesy in the reign of this Jeroboam. At the same time Amo prophesied; soon after Micah, then Isaiah, in the days of Ahaz an Hezekiah. Thus God, in the darkest and most degenerate ages of the church, raised up some to be burning and shining lights in it; to their own age, by their preaching and living, and a few by their writings, to reflect light upon us in the last times __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
הוא 1931 השׁיב 7725 את 853 גבול 1366 ישׂראל 3478 מלבוא 935 חמת 2574 עד 5704 ים 3220 הערבה 6160 כדבר 1697 יהוה 3068 אלהי 430 ישׂראל 3478 אשׁר 834 דבר 1696 ביד 3027 עבדו 5650 יונה 3124 בן 1121 אמתי 573 הנביא 5030 אשׁר 834 מגת החפר׃ 1662
