Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 14:17

And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

17 22. Close of the reign of Amaziah. He is slain by his subjects. Succession of Azariah in Judah (2Ch 25:25-28; 2Ch 26:1-2)

17. Amaziah lived after the death of Jehoash ] It has been already noticed that this is not the usual way in which the continuance of a king’s reign is described. It may be that while Jehoash was on the throne of Israel Amaziah was kept in subjection, if not a prisoner, and even after that never came again to the full enjoyment of his power.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. Which, with the fourteen he reigned contemporary with him, made the twenty nine years he reigned, 2Ki 14:2. The Vulgate Latin version is, “twenty five years”.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amaziah’s Death Commentary on 2Ki 14:17-22 AND 2Ch 25:25-28

Amaziah’s war with Joash and the kingdom of Israel was the one major event of his reign. When the inspired record of that episode is related there remains only the details of his death. He lived fifteen years after the death of Joash of Israel, who defeated him so disastrously. From the sequel it appears that many people in Judah were disillusioned with the king, perhaps blaming him for the sorry state into which the nation came following their humiliation at the hands of Joash.

After fifteen years the feeling against Amaziah was so intense that a conspiracy was formed to assassinate him. Amaziah discovered the plot and fled to the fortified city of Lachish, which was located about twenty-three straight-line miles southwest of Jerusalem, in the foothills leading to the Mediterranean plain. It was the first formidable obstacle to invaders out of Africa or the Sinaitic desert. Perhaps Amaziah thought to find protection in this place, but he failed. His murderers followed him there and killed him. His body was returned to Jerusalem on horses, and he was buried there with his fathers. How sad that death found him, evidently, still with an imperfect heart (Ecc 11:3).

The people of Judah enthroned Amaziah’s son, Azariah, in the stead of his murdered father. He is much better known in the Scriptures as Uzziah. Many of the writing prophets began, or continued, their ministries into his reign, which lasted for fifty years. He continued the subjugation of Edom begun by his father, including the building of Elath, the port city on the Red Sea’s eastern gulf, known as the Elanitic.

Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary

(17) Fifteen years.He came to the throne in the second year of Jehoash, who reigned sixteen years (2Ki. 13:10), and reigned twenty-nine years (2Ki. 14:2). The different data are thus self-consistent. Jehoash appears to have died very soon after his victoryperhaps in the following year.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

2Ki 14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

Ver. 17. Lived fifteen years.] But it was a kind of a lifeless life. Mortis habet vices quae trahitur vita gemitibus. He lay all the while under the hatred and contempt of his subjects; being forced also by conspirators to flee to Lachish, and there to live as an exile, till they thought good to take away his life. Our Edward II, called Carnatron, his case was not unlike. Edvardum occidere nolite timere bonum est.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)