2 Kings 14:23

23 In the fifteenth year of Amatzyah the son of Yo'ash king of Yehudah Yarov`am the son of Yo'ash king of Yisra'el began to reign in Shomron, [and reigned] forty-one years.

2 Kings 14:23 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 14:23

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
So that he reigned fourteen or fifteen years contemporary with him; for Amaziah reigned twenty nine years:

[and reigned] forty and one years;
Josephus says ^F9 forty, giving only the round number.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 9.) c. 10. sect. 1.

2 Kings 14:23 In-Context

21 All the people of Yehudah took `Azaryah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amatzyah.

22 He built Elat, and restored it to Yehudah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

23 In the fifteenth year of Amatzyah the son of Yo'ash king of Yehudah Yarov`am the son of Yo'ash king of Yisra'el began to reign in Shomron, [and reigned] forty-one years.

24 He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he didn't depart from all the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin.

25 He restored the border of Yisra'el from the entrance of Hamat to the sea of the `Aravah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, which he spoke by his servant Yonah the son of Ammittai, the prophet, who was of Gat-Hefer.