2 Kings 14:3 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Kings 14:3

Amaziah Reigns in Judah

1 In ^athe second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, ^bAmaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, became king.

2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

3 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like his father David; he did everything ^aas his father Joash had done.

4 ^aHowever the¹ high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

5 Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he executed his servants ^awho had murdered his father the king.

6 But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the Lord commanded, saying, ^a“Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall be put to death for his own sin.”

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AMAZIAH'S GOOD REIGN OVER JUDAH. (II Kings 14:1-6)

He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father—The beginning of his reign was excellent, for he acted the part of a constitutional king, according to the law of God, yet not with perfect sincerity of heart (compare II Chronicles 25:2). As in the case of his father Joash, the early promise was belied by the devious course he personally followed in later life (see II Chronicles 20:14), as well as by the public irregularities he tolerated in the kingdom.

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