Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
He restored the coast of Israel - Jeroboam, in the course of his long reign, recovered the old boundaries of the holy land to the north, the east, and the southeast. The "entering in of Hamath" is spoken of as the northern boundary; the "sea of the plain," or the Dead Sea, is the southern boundary (see the marginal references): here Israel adjoined on Moab. The entire tract east of Jordan had been lost to Israel in the reign of Jehu and that of Jehoahaz II Kings 10:33; II Kings 13:3, II Kings 13:25. All this was now recovered: and not only so, but Moab was reduced Amos 6:14, and the Syrians were in their turn forced to submit to the Jews II Kings 14:28. The northern conquests were perhaps little less important than the eastern II Kings 14:28.
The word of the Lord ... which he spake - Some have found the prophecy of Jonah here alluded to, or a portion of it, in Isaiah 15:1-9; Isaiah 16:1-14 (see II Kings 16:13); but without sufficient grounds.
This passage tends to fix Jonah' s date to some period not very late in the reign of Jeroboam II, i. e. (according to the ordinary chronology) from 823 BC to 782 BC On Gath-hepher, see the marginal reference and note.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 14:25:
Joshua 19:13
2 Kings 14:23
2 Kings 14:27
Hosea 1:4
Joel 2:20
Amos 5:27
Amos 6:14
Haggai 1:1
Acts 9:2
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