2 Kings 13:1-14:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 13:1

In this chapter the history of the kingdom of Israel is traced through the two reigns of Jehoahaz and Jehoash. In 2 Kings 14:0 the history of Judah is resumed.In the three and twentieth year - Rather, the “one and twentieth year.” See 2 Kings 13:10. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 13:1-25

13:1-17:41 HISTORY TO THE FALL OF ISRAELAfter the anti-Baal revolution (13:1-14:22)Jehu’s son Jehoahaz followed the sins of earlier Israelite kings, and so did his people. The Syrian attacks foreseen by Elisha were so severe that, had God not mercifully intervened, the whole population would have been left homeless and the entire army destroyed (13:1-9).The next king, Jehoash, learnt from Elisha that he would win three battles against Syria. He would have won more, had he not lacked faith in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 13:1

three and twentieth year. See note on 2 Kings 13:10 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 13:1

THE REIGNS OF JEHOAHAZ AND JOASH IN ISRAEL; THE DEATH OF ELISHAThe affairs in Judah are here dropped for the moment as this chapter takes up the progress of corruption in Israel. "This chapter represents how insidiously sin entrenches itself and spreads in spite of repeated efforts to check it."[1] "Here we find the glory of Israel in ashes, buried and lost and turned into shame. How unlike does Israel appear here to what it had been and what it might have been. Here her crown is profaned and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 13:1

1-3. Jehoahaz . . . reigned seventeen years—Under his government, which pursued the policy of his predecessors regarding the support of the calf-worship, Israel's apostasy from the true God became greater and more confirmed than in the time of his father Jehu. The national chastisement, when it came, was consequently the more severe and the instruments employed by the Lord in scourging the revolted nation were Hazael and his son and general Ben-hadad, in resisting whose successive invasions the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Kings 13:1-9

4. Jehoahaz’s evil reign in Israel 13:1-9Jehoahaz reigned over the Northern Kingdom from 814 to 798 B.C. Because Israel continued to disregard the Mosaic Covenant, God allowed the Arameans to dominate her. Hazael ruled Aram from 841 to 801 B.C., and his son, Ben-Hadad III, succeeded him. The date that Ben-Hadad III’s reign ended seems to have been about 773 B.C. [Note: See the chart of Aramean kings named in 2 Kings in my comments on 8:7-15 above.] Aram’s oppression moved Jehoahaz to seek... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 13:1-25

Reigns of Jehoahaz and Joash of Israel. The last Prediction of Elisha3. All their days] RV ’continually,’ i.e. throughout the reign of Jehoahaz. 5 A saviour] either Jehoash (2 Kings 13:25) or Jeroboam II (2 Kings 14:25-27) is meant. In their tents] i.e. in their homes, the phrase being a survival from earlier times when the Israelites were a body of nomads roaming the desert. 6. The grove] RV ’the Asherah’: see on 1 Kings 14:15. If Jehu had altogether abolished the worship of Baal (2 Kings... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 13:1-3

XIII.(1-3) THE REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ.(1) In the three and twentieth year of Joash.—Josephus makes it the twenty-first year of Joash, but wrongly. According to 2 Kings 12:1, Joash succeeded in the seventh year of Jehu, and Jehu reigned twentyeight years (2 Kings 10:36).Seventeen years.—This agrees with 2 Kings 14:1.(2) And he did.—See Notes on 2 Kings 3:3.(3) He delivered them into the hand of Hazael.—Comp. 2 Kings 10:32, seq. The meaning is that Jehovah allowed Israel to be defeated in successive... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Kings 13:1-25

Age and Youth 2 Kings 13:14-19 This is the last hour in a prophet's life. The brave, simple-hearted Elisha, now past eighty years, has lain down to die. He had been not prophet merely, but patriot; and the nation's grief was the more bitter that at this juncture he could ill be spared. Repeatedly in the past he had stepped between Israel and the vengeance of her foes; even now, as he lay waiting for the end, his parting thoughts were given to his country. They must have been sad enough. Israel... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 13:1-9

THE DYNASTY OF JEHUJehoahaz 814-797 {2 Kings 13:1-9}Joash 797-781 {; 2 Kings 13:10-21; 2 Kings 14:8-16}Jeroboam II 781-740 {; 2 Kings 14:23-29}Zechariah 740 {2 Kings 15:8-12}"Them that honor Me I will honor, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed."- 1 Samuel 2:30ISRAEL had scarcely ever sunk to so low a nadir of degradation as she did in the reign of the son of Jehu. We have already mentioned that some assign to his reign the ghastly story which we have narrated in our sketch of the... read more

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