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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 3:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 3:1 |
Strong Concordance |
Now Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111] the eighteenth [08083] [06240] year [08141] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063], and reigned [04427] twelve [08147] [06240] years [08141]. |
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King James |
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
JEHORAM'S EVIL REIGN OVER ISRAEL. (Kg2 3:1-3)
Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat--(compare Kg1 22:51). To reconcile the statements in the two passages, we must suppose that Ahaziah, having reigned during the seventeenth and the greater part of the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, was succeeded by his brother Joram or Jehoram, in the end of that eighteenth year, or else that Ahaziah, having reigned two years in conjunction with his father, died at the end of that period when Jehoram ascended the throne. His policy was as hostile as that of his predecessors to the true religion; but he made some changes. Whatever was his motive for this alteration--whether dread of the many alarming judgments the patronage of idolatry had brought upon his father; or whether it was made as a small concession to the feelings of Jehoshaphat, his ally, he abolished idolatry in its gross form and restored the symbolic worship of God, which the kings of Israel, from the time of Jeroboam, had set up as a partition wall between their subjects and those of Judah. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat - This date agrees exactly with the statements that Jehoshaphat began to reign in the fourth year of Ahab Kg1 22:41, and Ahaziah in the 17th year of Jehoshaphat Kg1 22:51. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Reign of Joram of Israel. - For the chronological statement in Kg2 3:1, see at Kg2 1:17. Joram or Jehoram was not so ungodly as his father Ahab and his Mother Jezebel. He had the statue or pillar of Baal, which his father had erected in Samaria, removed; and it was only to the sin of Jeroboam, i.e., the calf-worship, that he adhered. Joram therefore wished to abolish the worship of Baal and elevate the worship of Jehovah, under the image of the calf (ox), into the region of his kingdom once more. For the singular suffix ממּנּה see Ewald, 317, a. He did not succeed, however, in exterminating the worship of Baal. It not only continued in Samaria, but appears to have been carried on again in the most shameless manner (cf. Kg2 10:18.); at which we cannot be surprised, since his mother Jezebel, that fanatical worshipper of Baal, was living throughout the whole of his reign (Kg2 9:30). |
51 Ahaziah [0274] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111] the seventeenth [07651] [06240] year [08141] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063], and reigned [04427] two years [08141] over Israel [03478].
1 Now Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111] the eighteenth [08083] [06240] year [08141] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063], and reigned [04427] twelve [08147] [06240] years [08141].
2 And he wrought [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068]; but not like his father [01], and like his mother [0517]: for he put away [05493] the image [04676] of Baal [01168] that his father [01] had made [06213].
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.
51 Ahaziah [0274] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111] the seventeenth [07651] [06240] year [08141] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063], and reigned [04427] two years [08141] over Israel [03478].
41 And Jehoshaphat [03092] the son [01121] of Asa [0609] began to reign [04427] over Judah [03063] in the fourth [0702] year [08141] of Ahab [0256] king [04428] of Israel [03478].
30 And when Jehu [03058] was come [0935] to Jezreel [03157], Jezebel [0348] heard [08085] of it; and she painted [07760] [06320] her face [05869], and tired [03190] her head [07218], and looked out [08259] at a window [02474].
18 And Jehu [03058] gathered [06908] all the people [05971] together [06908], and said [0559] unto them, Ahab [0256] served [05647] Baal [01168] a little [04592]; but Jehu [03058] shall serve [05647] him much [07235].
17 So he died [04191] according to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] which Elijah [0452] had spoken [01696]. And Jehoram [03088] reigned [04427] in his stead in the second [08147] year [08141] of Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063]; because he had no son [01121].
1 Now Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111] the eighteenth [08083] [06240] year [08141] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063], and reigned [04427] twelve [08147] [06240] years [08141].