2 Kings 15:10 NLT,NIV,ESV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 15:8-12

The Reign Of Zechariah King of Israel c.753-752 BC. By the time of Zechariah the prophets Amos and Hosea were in full flow denouncing the sins of Israel, and to some extent those of Judah. From this point on Israel would sink lower and lower until its existence as a nation would itself be terminated. The reign of Zechariah was to be brief and would bring to an end the dynasty of Jehu, and from now on Israel would have a motley variety of kings only one of whom would die naturally. The reign of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 15:8-38

2 Kings 15:8-Zechariah : . Last Kings of Israel.— Zechariah, the son of Jeroboam, reigned but six months ( 2 Kings 15:8), and was killed by Shallum, probably, as LXX (L) reads, “ in Ibleam,” instead of the Heb., which is doubtfully rendered “ before the people” ( 2 Kings 15:10). After a month 2 Kings 15:8 reign Shallum was killed by Menahem ( 2 Kings 15:14-Song of Solomon :). 2 Kings 15:19 . Pul, the king of Assyria, has been identified with Tiglath-pileser III (58f., 70f.), who ravaged... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 15:10

Shallum the son of Jabesh; one of his chief captains. Before the people openly and impudently; which he presumed to do, either because he remembered that the promise of the kingdom made to Jehu was confined to the fourth generation, 2 Kings 10:30, which he observed to be now expired; or because he perceived that the people were generally disaffected to their king, and favourable to his attempt. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 15:8-31

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—2 Kings 15:10. Assassination of Zachariah by the conspirator Shallum—The compound word rendered “before the people,” would seem to record a public act of regicide to which the populace offered no resistance. But Dr. H. Gratz reals it as “in Ibleam” (i.e., a town in the plains of Jezreel). Yet קָבָל עַם naturally mean what the text records, although Gratz notes that the A. V. is ungrammatical. The Sept. translate thus:—καὶ έπάταξεν αύτὸν εν Κεβλαἂμ. 2 Kings 15:12.... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - 2 Kings 15:10

smote As prophesied, Amos 7:9. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 15:1-38

Chapter 15He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, he reigned for fifty-two years ( 2 Kings 15:2 ).One of the longest reigns.He did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; except that he left the high places where the people were sacrificing. And the LORD smote the king with leprosy ( 2 Kings 15:3-5 ).We will get the full story of this when we get to Chronicles.until the day of his death. [And so his son was sort of a... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:1-38

2 Kings 15:1 . Azariah; that is, Uzziah, as below, and Isaiah 6:1. He was a good man under affliction, brought several of the ten tribes under the wings of his defence, extended his empire to the Red sea, and sent a fleet round Africa. 2 Kings 15:5 . The king was a leper. See on 2 Chronicles 26:21. 2 Kings 15:12 . The fourth generation. God kept his promise with the house of Jehu, though his sons kept no faith with Him who placed them on the throne. 2 Kings 15:14 . Menahem smote... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 15:10

2Ki 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. Ver. 10. And slew him, and reigned in his stead. ] After whose death followed these direful calamities foretold by the prophet Amos. 2Ki 7:9 Never did the kingdom of Israel so flourish as under this king’s father - viz., Jeroboam II. The greatest prosperity is oft followed by the greatest misery. Periculosa est, secundum Hippocratem, summe bona corporis... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Kings 15:10

am 3232, bc 772 smote him: "As prophesied. Amos 7:9." slew him: 2 Kings 15:14, 2 Kings 15:25, 2 Kings 15:30, 2 Kings 9:24, 2 Kings 9:31, 1 Kings 15:28, 1 Kings 16:9, 1 Kings 16:10, Hosea 1:4, Hosea 1:5 Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:15 - so that he died 2 Kings 14:19 - they made 1 Chronicles 2:40 - Shallum Hosea 7:7 - devoured Hosea 8:4 - set read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 15:10

10. Smote him before the people That is, openly; before the eyes of all. It would seem that Zachariah’s administration was so unpopular as to invite or occasion conspiracy. The Septuagint takes the words rendered before the people as a proper name in Keblaam and Ewald thinks we should disregard the in, and understand Keblaam as the name of another conspirator, who sought, like Shallum, to usurp the throne. read more