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Jeroboam II Reigns in Israel

23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years.
24 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from all the asins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.  
25 He arestored the territory of Israel bfrom the entrance of Hamath to cthe Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant dJonah the son of Amittai, the prophet who was from eGath Hepher.  
26 For the Lord asaw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and whether bond or free, bthere was no helper for Israel.  
27 aAnd the Lord did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.  
28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did—his might, how he made war, and how he recaptured for Israel, from aDamascus and Hamath, bwhat had belonged to Judah—are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?  
29 So Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. Then aZechariah his son reigned in his place. 
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2 Kings 14:25

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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