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2Ki 13:1	Strong Concordance	In the three [07969] [08141] and twentieth [06242] year [08141] of Joash [03101] the son [01121] of Ahaziah [0274] king [04428] of Judah [03063] Jehoahaz [03059] the son [01121] of Jehu [03058] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111], and reigned seventeen [07651] [06240] years [08141].
	King James	In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
JEHOAHAZ'S WICKED REIGN OVER ISRAEL. (Kg2 13:1-7) 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 Israelitish army was sadly reduced and weakened. In the extremity of his distress, Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and was heard, not on his own account (Psa 66:18; Pro 1:28; Pro 15:8), but that of the ancient covenant with the patriarchs (Kg2 13:23).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

JEHOAHAZ'S WICKED REIGN OVER ISRAEL. (Kg2 13:1-7)

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 Israelitish army was sadly reduced and weakened. In the extremity of his distress, Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and was heard, not on his own account (Psa 66:18; Pro 1:28; Pro 15:8), but that of the ancient covenant with the patriarchs (Kg2 13:23).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
In this chapter the history of the kingdom of Israel is traced through the two reigns of Jehoahaz and Jehoash. In 2 Kings 14 the history of Judah is resumed. In the three and twentieth year - Rather, the "one and twentieth year." See Kg2 13:10.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Reign of Jehoahaz. - Jehu was followed by Jehoahaz his son, "in the twenty-third year of Joash of Judah." This synchronistic statement is not only at variance with Kg2 13:10, but cannot be very well reconciled with Kg2 12:1. If Jehoahaz began to reign in the twenty-third year of Joash king of Judah, and reigned seventeen years, his son cannot have followed him after his death in the thirty-seventh year of Joash of Judah, as is stated in Kg2 13:10, for there are only fourteen years and possibly a few months between the twenty-third and thirty-seventh years of Joash; and even if he ascended the throne at the commencement of the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash and died at the end of the thirty-seventh, they could only be reckoned as fifteen and not as seventeen years. Moreover, according to Kg2 12:1, Joash of Judah began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and therefore Athaliah, who ascended the throne at the same time as Jehu, reigned fully six years. If, therefore, the first year of Joash of Judah coincides with the seventh year of Jehu, the twenty-eighth year of Jehu must correspond to the twenty-second year of Joash of Judah; and in this year of Joash not only did Jehu die, but his son Jehoahaz ascended the throne. Consequently we must substitute the twenty-second year of Joash, or perhaps, still more correctly, the twenty-first year (Josephus), for the twenty-third. (Note: On the other hand, Thenius, who follows des Vignoles and Winer, not only defends the correctness of the account "in the twenty-third year of Joash," because it agrees with the twenty-eight years' reign of Jehu (Kg2 10:36), but also holds fast the seventeen years' duration of the reign of Jehoahaz on account of its agreement with Kg2 14:1; for 6 years (Athaliah) + 40 years (Joash) = 46 years, and 28 years (Jehu) + 17 years (Jehoahaz) = 45 years; so that, as is there affirmed, Amaziah the son of Joash ascended the throne in the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz. But to arrive at this result he assumes that there is an error in Kg2 13:10, namely, that instead of the thirty-seventh year we ought to read the thirty-ninth year there, according to the edit. Aldina of the lxx. But apart from the fact that, as we have shown above in the text, the datum "in the twenty-third year of Joash" does not harmonize with the twenty-eight years' reign of Jehu, this solution of the difference is overthrown by the circumstance that, in order to obtain this agreement between Kg2 13:1 and Kg2 13:14, Thenius reckons the years of the reigns not only of Athaliah and Joash, but also of Jehu and Jehoahaz, as full years (the former 16 + 40, the latter 28 + 17); whereas, in order to bring the datum in Kg2 13:1 (in the twenty-third year of Joash) into harmony with the emendation proposed in Kg2 13:10 (in the thirty-ninth year of Joash), he reckons the length of the reign of Jehoahaz as only sixteen years (instead of seventeen). For example, if Jehoahaz reigned seventeen years, supposing that he ascended the throne in the twenty-third year of Joash of Judah, he died in the fortieth year of Joash (not the thirty-ninth), and his son began to reign the same year. In that case Amaziah would have begun to reign in the first year of Jehoash of Israel, and not in the second, as is stated in Kg2 14:1. - The reading of the lxx (ed. Ald. v. 10), "in the thirty-ninth year," is therefore nothing but a mistaken emendation resorted to for the purpose of removing a discrepancy, but of no critical value.) If Jehu died in the earliest months of the twenty-eighth year of his reign, so that he only reigned twenty-seven years and one or two months, his death and his son's ascent of the throne might fall even in the closing months of the twenty-first year of the reign of Joash of Judah. And from the twenty-first to the thirty-seventh year of Joash, Jehoahaz may have reigned sixteen years and a few months, and his reign be described as lasting seventeen years. Kg2 13:2-3 As Jehoahaz trod in the footsteps of his forefathers and continued the sin of Jeroboam (the worship of the calves), the Lord punished Israel during his reign even more than in that of his predecessor. The longer and the more obstinately the sin was continued, the more severe did the punishment become. He gave them (the Israelites) into the power of the Syrian king Hazael and his son Benhadad כּל־היּמים, "the whole time," sc. of the reign of Jehoahaz (vid., Kg2 13:22); not of the reigns of Hazael and Benhadad, as Thenius supposes in direct opposition to Kg2 13:24 and Kg2 13:25. According to Kg2 13:7, the Syrians so far destroyed the Israelitish army, that only fifty horsemen, ten war-chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers were left. Kg2 13:4-5 In this oppression Jehoahaz prayed to the Lord (יי פּני חלּה as in Kg1 13:6); and the Lord heard this prayer, because He saw their oppression at the hands of the Syrians, and gave Israel a saviour, so that they came out from the power of the Syrians and dwelt in their booths again, as before, i.e., were able to live peaceably again in their houses, without being driven off and led away by the foe. The saviour, מושׁיע, was neither an angel, nor the prophet Elisha, nor quidam e ducibus Joasi, as some of the earlier commentators supposed, nor a victory obtained by Jehoahaz over the Syrians, nor merely Jeroboam (Thenius); but the Lord gave them the saviour in the two successors of Jehoahaz, in the kings Jehoash and Jeroboam, the former of whom wrested from the Syrians all the cities that had been conquered by them under his father (Kg2 13:25), while the latter restored the ancient boundaries of Israel (Kg2 14:25). According to Kg2 13:22-25, the oppression by the Syrians lasted as long as Jehoahaz lived; but after his death the Lord had compassion upon Israel, and after the death of Hazael, when his son Benhadad had become king, Jehoash recovered from Benhadad all the Israelitish cities that had been taken by the Syrians. It is obvious from this, that the oppression which Benhadad the son of Hazael inflicted upon Israel, according to Kg2 13:3, falls within the period of his father's reign, so that it was not as king, but as commander-in-chief under his father, that he oppressed Israel, and therefore he is not even called king in Kg2 13:3. Kg2 13:6 "Only they departed not," etc., is inserted as a parenthesis and must be expressed thus: "although they departed not from the sin of Jeroboam." Kg2 13:7 "For (כּי) he had not left," etc., furnishes the ground for Kg2 13:5 : God gave them a saviour, ... although they did not desist from the sin of Jeroboam, ... for Israel had been brought to the last extremity; He (Jehovah) had left to Jehoahaz people (עם, people of war), only fifty horsemen, etc. For החטי instead of החטיא (Kg2 13:6), see at Kg1 21:21. The suffix בּהּ in Kg2 13:6 refers to הטּאת, just as that in ממּנּה in Kg2 13:2 (see at Kg2 3:3). "And even the Asherah was (still) standing at Samaria," probably from the time of Ahab downwards (Kg1 16:33), since Jehu is not said to have destroyed it (Kg2 10:26.). וגו וישׂמם "and had made them like dust for trampling upon," - an expression denoting utter destruction. Kg2 13:8-9 Close of the reign of Jehoahaz. Jehoahaz had probably shown his might in the war with the Syrians, although he had been overcome.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Reign of Jehoahaz. - Jehu was followed by Jehoahaz his son, "in the twenty-third year of Joash of Judah." This synchronistic statement is not only at variance with Kg2 13:10, but cannot be very well reconciled with Kg2 12:1. If Jehoahaz began to reign in the twenty-third year of Joash king of Judah, and reigned seventeen years, his son cannot have followed him after his death in the thirty-seventh year of Joash of Judah, as is stated in Kg2 13:10, for there are only fourteen years and possibly a few months between the twenty-third and thirty-seventh years of Joash; and even if he ascended the throne at the commencement of the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash and died at the end of the thirty-seventh, they could only be reckoned as fifteen and not as seventeen years. Moreover, according to Kg2 12:1, Joash of Judah began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and therefore Athaliah, who ascended the throne at the same time as Jehu, reigned fully six years. If, therefore, the first year of Joash of Judah coincides with the seventh year of Jehu, the twenty-eighth year of Jehu must correspond to the twenty-second year of Joash of Judah; and in this year of Joash not only did Jehu die, but his son Jehoahaz ascended the throne. Consequently we must substitute the twenty-second year of Joash, or perhaps, still more correctly, the twenty-first year (Josephus), for the twenty-third.

(Note: On the other hand, Thenius, who follows des Vignoles and Winer, not only defends the correctness of the account "in the twenty-third year of Joash," because it agrees with the twenty-eight years' reign of Jehu (Kg2 10:36), but also holds fast the seventeen years' duration of the reign of Jehoahaz on account of its agreement with Kg2 14:1; for 6 years (Athaliah) + 40 years (Joash) = 46 years, and 28 years (Jehu) + 17 years (Jehoahaz) = 45 years; so that, as is there affirmed, Amaziah the son of Joash ascended the throne in the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz. But to arrive at this result he assumes that there is an error in Kg2 13:10, namely, that instead of the thirty-seventh year we ought to read the thirty-ninth year there, according to the edit. Aldina of the lxx. But apart from the fact that, as we have shown above in the text, the datum "in the twenty-third year of Joash" does not harmonize with the twenty-eight years' reign of Jehu, this solution of the difference is overthrown by the circumstance that, in order to obtain this agreement between Kg2 13:1 and Kg2 13:14, Thenius reckons the years of the reigns not only of Athaliah and Joash, but also of Jehu and Jehoahaz, as full years (the former 16 + 40, the latter 28 + 17); whereas, in order to bring the datum in Kg2 13:1 (in the twenty-third year of Joash) into harmony with the emendation proposed in Kg2 13:10 (in the thirty-ninth year of Joash), he reckons the length of the reign of Jehoahaz as only sixteen years (instead of seventeen). For example, if Jehoahaz reigned seventeen years, supposing that he ascended the throne in the twenty-third year of Joash of Judah, he died in the fortieth year of Joash (not the thirty-ninth), and his son began to reign the same year. In that case Amaziah would have begun to reign in the first year of Jehoash of Israel, and not in the second, as is stated in Kg2 14:1. - The reading of the lxx (ed. Ald. v. 10), "in the thirty-ninth year," is therefore nothing but a mistaken emendation resorted to for the purpose of removing a discrepancy, but of no critical value.)

If Jehu died in the earliest months of the twenty-eighth year of his reign, so that he only reigned twenty-seven years and one or two months, his death and his son's ascent of the throne might fall even in the closing months of the twenty-first year of the reign of Joash of Judah. And from the twenty-first to the thirty-seventh year of Joash, Jehoahaz may have reigned sixteen years and a few months, and his reign be described as lasting seventeen years.

Kg2 13:2-3

As Jehoahaz trod in the footsteps of his forefathers and continued the sin of Jeroboam (the worship of the calves), the Lord punished Israel during his reign even more than in that of his predecessor. The longer and the more obstinately the sin was continued, the more severe did the punishment become. He gave them (the Israelites) into the power of the Syrian king Hazael and his son Benhadad כּל־היּמים, "the whole time," sc. of the reign of Jehoahaz (vid., Kg2 13:22); not of the reigns of Hazael and Benhadad, as Thenius supposes in direct opposition to Kg2 13:24 and Kg2 13:25. According to Kg2 13:7, the Syrians so far destroyed the Israelitish army, that only fifty horsemen, ten war-chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers were left.

Kg2 13:4-5

In this oppression Jehoahaz prayed to the Lord (יי פּני חלּה as in Kg1 13:6); and the Lord heard this prayer, because He saw their oppression at the hands of the Syrians, and gave Israel a saviour, so that they came out from the power of the Syrians and dwelt in their booths again, as before, i.e., were able to live peaceably again in their houses, without being driven off and led away by the foe. The saviour, מושׁיע, was neither an angel, nor the prophet Elisha, nor quidam e ducibus Joasi, as some of the earlier commentators supposed, nor a victory obtained by Jehoahaz over the Syrians, nor merely Jeroboam (Thenius); but the Lord gave them the saviour in the two successors of Jehoahaz, in the kings Jehoash and Jeroboam, the former of whom wrested from the Syrians all the cities that had been conquered by them under his father (Kg2 13:25), while the latter restored the ancient boundaries of Israel (Kg2 14:25). According to Kg2 13:22-25, the oppression by the Syrians lasted as long as Jehoahaz lived; but after his death the Lord had compassion upon Israel, and after the death of Hazael, when his son Benhadad had become king, Jehoash recovered from Benhadad all the Israelitish cities that had been taken by the Syrians. It is obvious from this, that the oppression which Benhadad the son of Hazael inflicted upon Israel, according to Kg2 13:3, falls within the period of his father's reign, so that it was not as king, but as commander-in-chief under his father, that he oppressed Israel, and therefore he is not even called king in Kg2 13:3.

Kg2 13:6

"Only they departed not," etc., is inserted as a parenthesis and must be expressed thus: "although they departed not from the sin of Jeroboam."

Kg2 13:7

"For (כּי) he had not left," etc., furnishes the ground for Kg2 13:5 : God gave them a saviour, ... although they did not desist from the sin of Jeroboam, ... for Israel had been brought to the last extremity; He (Jehovah) had left to Jehoahaz people (עם, people of war), only fifty horsemen, etc. For החטי instead of החטיא (Kg2 13:6), see at Kg1 21:21. The suffix בּהּ in Kg2 13:6 refers to הטּאת, just as that in ממּנּה in Kg2 13:2 (see at Kg2 3:3). "And even the Asherah was (still) standing at Samaria," probably from the time of Ahab downwards (Kg1 16:33), since Jehu is not said to have destroyed it (Kg2 10:26.). וגו וישׂמם "and had made them like dust for trampling upon," - an expression denoting utter destruction.

Kg2 13:8-9

Close of the reign of Jehoahaz. Jehoahaz had probably shown his might in the war with the Syrians, although he had been overcome.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
In the three and twentieth year of Joash - The chronology here is thus accounted for; Jehoahaz began his reign at the commencement of the twenty-third year of Joash, and reigned seventeen years, fourteen alone, and three years with his son Joash; the fourteenth year was but just begun.

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²³ And the LORD [03068] was gracious [02603] unto them, and had compassion [07355] on them, and had respect [06437] unto them, because of [04616] his covenant [01285] with Abraham [085], Isaac [03327], and Jacob [03290], and would [014] not destroy [07843] them, neither cast [07993] he them from his presence [06440] as yet [05704].

⁸ The sacrifice [02077] of the wicked [07563] is an abomination [08441] to the LORD [03068]: but the prayer [08605] of the upright [03477] is his delight [07522].

²⁸ Then shall they call [07121] upon me, but I will not answer [06030]; they shall seek me early [07836], but they shall not find [04672] me:

¹⁸ If I regard [07200] iniquity [0205] in my heart [03820], the Lord [0136] will not hear [08085] me:

¹ In the three [07969] [08141] and twentieth [06242] year [08141] of Joash [03101] the son [01121] of Ahaziah [0274] king [04428] of Judah [03063] Jehoahaz [03059] the son [01121] of Jehu [03058] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111], and reigned seventeen [07651] [06240] years [08141].
² And he did [06213] that which was evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], and followed [03212] [0310] the sins [02403] of Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Nebat [05028], which made Israel [03478] to sin [02398]; he departed [05493] not therefrom.
³ And the anger [0639] of the LORD [03068] was kindled [02734] against Israel [03478], and he delivered [05414] them into the hand [03027] of Hazael [02371] king [04428] of Syria [0758], and into the hand [03027] of Benhadad [01130] the son [01121] of Hazael [02371], all their days [03117].
⁴ And Jehoahaz [03059] besought [02470] the LORD [03068], and the LORD [03068] hearkened [08085] unto [06440] him: for he saw [07200] the oppression [03906] of Israel [03478], because the king [04428] of Syria [0758] oppressed [03905] them.
⁵ (And the LORD [03068] gave [05414] Israel [03478] a saviour [03467], so that they went out [03318] from under the hand [03027] of the Syrians [0758]: and the children [01121] of Israel [03478] dwelt [03427] in their tents [0168], as beforetime [08032] [08543].
⁶ Nevertheless they departed [05493] not from the sins [02403] of the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379], who made Israel [03478] sin [02398], but walked [01980] therein: and there remained [05975] the grove [0842] also in Samaria [08111].)
⁷ Neither did he leave [07604] of the people [05971] to Jehoahaz [03059] but fifty [02572] horsemen [06571], and ten [06235] chariots [07393], and ten [06235] thousand [0505] footmen [07273]; for the king [04428] of Syria [0758] had destroyed [06] them, and had made [07760] them like the dust [06083] by threshing [01758].

¹⁰ In the thirty [07970] [08141] and seventh [07651] year [08141] of Joash [03101] king [04428] of Judah [03063] began Jehoash [03060] the son [01121] of Jehoahaz [03059] to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111], and reigned sixteen [08337] [06240] years [08141].

⁸ Now the rest [03499] of the acts [01697] of Jehoahaz [03059], and all that he did [06213], and his might [01369], are they not written [03789] in the book [05612] of the chronicles [01697] [03117] of the kings [04428] of Israel [03478]?
⁹ And Jehoahaz [03059] slept [07901] with his fathers [01]; and they buried [06912] him in Samaria [08111]: and Joash [03101] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.

²⁶ And they brought forth [03318] the images [04676] out of the house [01004] of Baal [01168], and burned [08313] them.

³³ And Ahab [0256] made [06213] a grove [0842]; and Ahab [0256] did [06213] more [03254] to provoke the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] to anger [03707] than all the kings [04428] of Israel [03478] that were before [06440] him.

³ Nevertheless he cleaved [01692] unto the sins [02403] of Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Nebat [05028], which made Israel [03478] to sin [02398]; he departed [05493] not therefrom.

⁶ Nevertheless they departed [05493] not from the sins [02403] of the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379], who made Israel [03478] sin [02398], but walked [01980] therein: and there remained [05975] the grove [0842] also in Samaria [08111].)

²¹ Behold, I will bring [0935] evil [07451] upon thee, and will take away [01197] thy posterity [0310], and will cut off [03772] from Ahab [0256] him that pisseth [08366] against the wall [07023], and him that is shut up [06113] and left [05800] in Israel [03478],

⁵ (And the LORD [03068] gave [05414] Israel [03478] a saviour [03467], so that they went out [03318] from under the hand [03027] of the Syrians [0758]: and the children [01121] of Israel [03478] dwelt [03427] in their tents [0168], as beforetime [08032] [08543].

⁷ Neither did he leave [07604] of the people [05971] to Jehoahaz [03059] but fifty [02572] horsemen [06571], and ten [06235] chariots [07393], and ten [06235] thousand [0505] footmen [07273]; for the king [04428] of Syria [0758] had destroyed [06] them, and had made [07760] them like the dust [06083] by threshing [01758].

³ And the anger [0639] of the LORD [03068] was kindled [02734] against Israel [03478], and he delivered [05414] them into the hand [03027] of Hazael [02371] king [04428] of Syria [0758], and into the hand [03027] of Benhadad [01130] the son [01121] of Hazael [02371], all their days [03117].

²² But Hazael [02371] king [04428] of Syria [0758] oppressed [03905] Israel [03478] all the days [03117] of Jehoahaz [03059].
²³ And the LORD [03068] was gracious [02603] unto them, and had compassion [07355] on them, and had respect [06437] unto them, because of [04616] his covenant [01285] with Abraham [085], Isaac [03327], and Jacob [03290], and would [014] not destroy [07843] them, neither cast [07993] he them from his presence [06440] as yet [05704].
²⁴ So Hazael [02371] king [04428] of Syria [0758] died [04191]; and Benhadad [01130] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.
²⁵ And Jehoash [03060] the son [01121] of Jehoahaz [03059] took [03947] again [07725] out of the hand [03027] of Benhadad [01130] the son [01121] of Hazael [02371] the cities [05892], which he had taken [03947] out of the hand [03027] of Jehoahaz [03059] his father [01] by war [04421]. Three [07969] times [06471] did Joash [03101] beat [05221] him, and recovered [07725] the cities [05892] of Israel [03478].

²⁵ He restored [07725] the coast [01366] of Israel [03478] from the entering [0935] of Hamath [02574] unto the sea [03220] of the plain [06160], according to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478], which he spake [01696] by the hand [03027] of his servant [05650] Jonah [03124], the son [01121] of Amittai [0573], the prophet [05030], which was of Gathhepher [01662].

²⁵ And Jehoash [03060] the son [01121] of Jehoahaz [03059] took [03947] again [07725] out of the hand [03027] of Benhadad [01130] the son [01121] of Hazael [02371] the cities [05892], which he had taken [03947] out of the hand [03027] of Jehoahaz [03059] his father [01] by war [04421]. Three [07969] times [06471] did Joash [03101] beat [05221] him, and recovered [07725] the cities [05892] of Israel [03478].

⁶ And the king [04428] answered [06030] and said [0559] unto the man [0376] of God [0430], Intreat [02470] now the face [06440] of the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], and pray [06419] for me, that my hand [03027] may be restored me again [07725]. And the man [0376] of God [0430] besought [02470] [06440] the LORD [03068], and the king's [04428] hand [03027] was restored him again [07725], and became as it was before [07223].

⁴ And Jehoahaz [03059] besought [02470] the LORD [03068], and the LORD [03068] hearkened [08085] unto [06440] him: for he saw [07200] the oppression [03906] of Israel [03478], because the king [04428] of Syria [0758] oppressed [03905] them.
⁵ (And the LORD [03068] gave [05414] Israel [03478] a saviour [03467], so that they went out [03318] from under the hand [03027] of the Syrians [0758]: and the children [01121] of Israel [03478] dwelt [03427] in their tents [0168], as beforetime [08032] [08543].

²⁴ So Hazael [02371] king [04428] of Syria [0758] died [04191]; and Benhadad [01130] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.

²² But Hazael [02371] king [04428] of Syria [0758] oppressed [03905] Israel [03478] all the days [03117] of Jehoahaz [03059].

² And he did [06213] that which was evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], and followed [03212] [0310] the sins [02403] of Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Nebat [05028], which made Israel [03478] to sin [02398]; he departed [05493] not therefrom.
³ And the anger [0639] of the LORD [03068] was kindled [02734] against Israel [03478], and he delivered [05414] them into the hand [03027] of Hazael [02371] king [04428] of Syria [0758], and into the hand [03027] of Benhadad [01130] the son [01121] of Hazael [02371], all their days [03117].

¹ In the second [08147] year [08141] of Joash [03101] son [01121] of Jehoahaz [03099] king [04428] of Israel [03478] reigned [04427] Amaziah [0558] the son [01121] of Joash [03101] king [04428] of Judah [03063].

¹⁴ Now Elisha [0477] was fallen sick [02470] of his sickness [02483] whereof he died [04191]. And Joash [03101] the king [04428] of Israel [03478] came down [03381] unto him, and wept [01058] over his face [06440], and said [0559], O my father [01], my father [01], the chariot [07393] of Israel [03478], and the horsemen [06571] thereof.

³⁶ And the time [03117] that Jehu [03058] reigned [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111] was twenty [06242] and eight [08083] years [08141].

¹ In the seventh [07651] year [08141] of Jehu [03058] Jehoash [03060] began to reign [04427]; and forty [0705] years [08141] reigned [04427] he in Jerusalem [03389]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Zibiah [06645] of Beersheba [0884].