2 Reyes 13:22-25

Jazael oprime a los israelitas

22 Durante el reinado de Joacaz, Jazael, rey de Siria, oprimió a los israelitas.

23 Sin embargo, el SEÑOR tuvo misericordia de ellos. Por causa del pacto que había hecho con Abraham, Isaac y Jacob, se compadeció de los israelitas y los preservó, y hasta el día de hoy no ha querido destruirlos ni arrojarlos de su presencia.

24 Cuando murió Jazael, rey de Siria, lo sucedió en el trono su hijo Ben Adad.

25 Entonces Joás hijo de Joacaz logró rescatar del poder de Ben Adad las ciudades que este le había arrebatado a Joacaz. En tres ocasiones Joás logró derrotarlo, de modo que pudo recuperar las ciudades de Israel.

2 Reyes 13:22-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 13

This chapter gives an account of the wicked reign of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel, and of the low estate he was brought into by the Syrians, 2Ki 13:1-9, and of the reign of his son Joash, 2Ki 13:10-13, and of the sickness and death of Elisha; of the visit Joash made him in his sickness; and of his prediction of the king's success against the Syrians; and of the reviving of a dead man cast into the prophet's sepulchre, 2Ki 13:14-21 and of the success of Joash against the Syrians, according to the prediction of the prophet, 2Ki 13:22-25.

\\of Judah\\ The same year he was so zealous and busy in repairing the temple, 2Ki 12:6,

\\Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria\\; whereas Joash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and Jehu reigned but twenty eight years, 2Ki 10:36, and 2Ki 12:1, this could be but the twenty first of Joash; to reconcile which it must be observed, that it was at the beginning of the seventh year of Jehu that Joash began to reign, and at the beginning of the twenty third of Joash that Jehoahaz began to reign, as the Jewish commentators observe:

\\and reigned seventeen years\\; the two last of which were in common with his son, as Junius, see 2Ki 13:10 17831-941219-2104-2Ki13.2