2 Kings 14:23-29

Jeroboam II Reigns in Israel

23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.

24 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ¹which he made Israel to sin.

25 ²He restored the border of Israel ³from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of ⁴the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant ⁵Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from ⁶Gath-hepher.

26 For the LORD ⁷saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, ⁸for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.

27 ⁹But the LORD had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he restored ¹⁰Damascus and ¹¹Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 14:23-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 14

In this chapter we have the good reign of Amaziah king of Judah, his victories over the Edomites, and war with Jehoash king of Israel, by whom he was taken, who died quickly after, 2Ki 14:1-16, but Amaziah lived fifteen years afterwards, and was slain by a conspiracy against him, and Azariah his son reigned in his stead, 2Ki 14:17-22, and a short account is given of the reign of Jeroboam the second, king of Israel, 2Ki 14:23-29.

Cross References

• 1. See 1 Kings 14:16
• 2. [2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 13:25]
• 3. See 1 Kings 8:65
• 4. See Deuteronomy 3:17
• 5. Jonah 1:1; [Matthew 12:39, 40]
• 6. Joshua 19:13
• 7. Exodus 3:7; [2 Kings 13:4]
• 8. See Deuteronomy 32:36
• 9. [2 Kings 13:5, 23]
• 10. [2 Samuel 8:6; 1 Kings 11:24; 1 Chronicles 18:5, 6]
• 11. 2 Chronicles 8:3