Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 14:2
He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2. He was twenty and five years old ] His father Joash died at about 47 years of age. So Amaziah was born when his father was twenty two.
his mother’s name was Jehoaddan ] R.V. Jehoaddin. The R.V. follows the Kethib. The A.V. has the same form as in 2 Chron. The LXX. gives , and Josephus .
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Joash of Judah reigned forty years 2Ki 12:1, and Joash of Israel ascended the throne in his namesakes thirty-seventh year 2Ki 13:10; hence, we should have expected to hear that Amaziah succeeded his father in the fourth rather than in the second year of Joash (of Israel). The usual explanation of the discrepancy is to suppose a double accession of the Israelite Joash – as co-partner with his father in the thirty-seventh year of his namesake, as sole king two years afterward.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Reigned twenty and nine years, to wit, fourteen years with Joash king of Israel, who reigned only sixteen years, 2Ki 13:10; and fifteen years after the death of Joash, or with Jeroboam the son of Joash, as is affirmed here, 2Ki 14:17; 2Ch 25:25.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem,…. Fourteen years contemporary with Joash king of Israel, who reigned sixteen years, 2Ki 13:10 and fifteen after him, 2Ki 14:17,
and his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem; of whom we nowhere else read,
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Ki 14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
Ver. 2. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan.] The mothers of the kings of Judah are expressed by name; not so of Israel. See on 1Ki 15:10 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: 2Ki 14:17 – Amaziah