2 Kings 14:1

1 In the second year of Jehoash , the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash , king of Judah, reigned (began to reign).

2 Kings 14:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 14:1

In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
] As Joash king of Israel began to reign in the thirty seventh of Joash king of Judah, ( 2 Kings 13:10 ) , who reigned forty years, Amaziah must therefore begin his reign in the fourth of Joash king of Israel; this therefore must be understood of his second year after he reigned alone, for he reigned two or three years in his father's lifetime.

2 Kings 14:1 In-Context

1 In the second year of Jehoash , the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash , king of Judah, reigned (began to reign).

2 Amaziah was of five and twenty years, when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem nine and twenty years; the name of his mother was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

3 And he did rightfulness before the Lord, nevertheless not as David, his father, did; he did by all things that Joash, his father, did, (And he did what was right before the Lord, but not as his forefather David did; he did all things, that his father Joash did,)

4 no but this only, that he did not away (the) high things; for yet the people made sacrifice, and burnt incense in (the) high things. (in all but this only, that he did not do away the hill shrines; for yet the people made sacrifice, and burned incense at the hill shrines.)

5 And when he had gotten the realm, he smote his servants, that had killed the king, his father;