2 Kings 15:30 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 15:8-31

The best days of the kingdom of Israel were while the government was in Jehu's family. In his reign, and the next three reigns, though there were many abominable corruptions and miserable grievances in Israel, yet the crown went in succession, the kings died in their beds, and some care was taken of public affairs; but, now that those days are at an end, the history which we have in these verses of about thirty-three years represents the affairs of that kingdom in the utmost confusion... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 15:30

And Hoshea the son or Elab made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead ,.... Did by him as he had done by Pekahiah, 2 Kings 15:28 , this was measure for measure, as the Jews say: and this he did in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah ; and yet Jotham is said to reign but sixteen years, 2 Kings 15:33 , this must be reckoned therefore either from the time of his being viceroy, and judging Israel in his father's... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 15:30

Hoshea the son of Elah - in the twentieth year of Jotham - There are many difficulties in the chronology of this place. To reconcile the whole, Calmet says: "Hoshea conspired against Pekah, the twentieth year of the reign of this prince, which was the eighteenth after the beginning of the reign of Jotham, king of Judah. Two years after this, that is, the fourth year of Ahaz, and the twentieth of Jotham, Hoshea made himself master of a part of the kingdom, according to 2... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:1-38

REIGNS OF AZARIAH AND JOTHAM OVER JUDAH ; AND OF ZACHARIAH , SHALLUM , MENAHEM , PEKAHIAH , AND PEKAH OVER ISRAEL . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:1-38

Some lessons from the history of kings. "In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam," etc. The mighty Governor of the universe is represented as saying to the Jewish nation, "I gave thee a king in mine anger" ( Hosea 13:2 ). And truly, with a certain number of exceptions here and there through the ages, kings have proved malific scourges of the race. In this chapter there are mentioned no less than seven of those men who are called kings, but who, instead of having one grain of moral... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:8-31

Worldly prosperity not infrequently the ruin of kingdoms. I. EXAMPLE OF SAMARIA . Scarcely ever was there a more prosperous reign than that of Jeroboam II .—a reign of forty-one years of continual success, uncheckered by a misfortune-Syria defeated, the old border everywhere recovered, Hamath occupied, Damascus brought into a subject condition. As usual, where there is military success, wealth flowed in, and with wealth, luxury. "Great houses" were built ( Amos 3:15 ), "ivory... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:27-31

REIGN OF PEKAH . The writer is again exceedingly brief. Pekah's reign was a remarkable one, and might have furnished much material to the historian. In conjunction with Rezin of Damascus, he made war upon Judaea, defeated Ahaz with great loss ( 2 Chronicles 28:6 ), and laid siege to Jerusalem ( Isaiah 7:1 ). Ahaz called in the aid or' Assyria, and Tiglath-pileser made two expeditions into Palestine—the one mentioned in 2 Kings 15:29 , and another some years afterwards. In the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:30

And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. By a mutilated notice in the records of Tiglath-pileser, it appears that the revolution here related was the result of another invasion of the Israelite territory by that monarch. "The land of Beth-Croft," he says, " … the tribe … the goods of its people and their furniture I sent to Assyria. Pekah their king [I caused to be put to death?] and Hoshea I... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 15:30

Hoshea, the son of Elah - One of Pekah’s friends, according to Josephus.The twentieth year of Jotham - According to 2 Kings 15:33 and 2 Chronicles 27:1, Jotham reigned only 16 years. See also the suggestion in the margin. Strangely enough, this first year of Hoshea is also called, not the fourth, but the twelfth of Ahaz 2 Kings 17:1. The chronological confusion of the history, as it stands, is striking.Uzziah - i. e. Azariah. See 2 Kings 15:1-4. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:30

2 Kings 15:30. Hosea made a conspiracy against Pekah, and smote him It is probable that the people were provoked at him for leaving them exposed to a foreign enemy, while he invaded Judah; and that Hosea took advantage of their discontent and disgust to seize and slay him. Thus Pekah’s treason and violence returned upon himself at last. And reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Jotham The meaning is, that he began his reign in the twentieth year after the beginning of Jotham’s... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 15:8-31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 15:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 15:30

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:1-38

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:1-38

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:8-31

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:27-31

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 15:30

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:30

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