Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 15:7
So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
7. and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David ] His body, as appears from 2 Chron., was not laid with the rest of the kings in the royal sepulchre, but apparently in the same piece of land. ‘They buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings: for they said; He is a leper’.
Jotham his son reigned ] We can scarcely suppose that this notice would have been thus set down in the ordinary formula after Azariah’s death, if Jotham had been joint ruler all the time of his father’s leprosy. The smiting of the king must have been in the latter part of his reign. The conquests, buildings, agriculture, and military organization described by the Chronicler (see above on verse 4) must have needed many years to bring to the perfection they attained. Therefore, though Azariah’s reign was fifty-two years long, we need not think of him as a leper for more than the last ten years. As Jotham succeeded his father at twenty-five he would only have been fifteen when he was placed over the household. This may perhaps make ten years appear too long a time to assign to his father’s leprosy.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
So Azariah slept with his fathers,…. Or died, when he had reigned fifty two years:
and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; but not in the sepulchres of the kings, but in the field of the burial, or the burying ground which belonged to them, because he was a leper, 2Ch 26:23. Benjamin of Tudela p places his grave near the pillar of Absalom, and the fountain of Siloah, near the brook Kidron:
and Jotham his son reigned in his stead; who reigned sixteen years; a further account of him, and his reign, we have in the latter part of this chapter, after the reigns of several of the kings of Israel.
p Itinerar. p. 43.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Ki 15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
Ver. 7. So Azariah slept, &c. ] When this king died, the Philistines rejoiced, because “the rod of him that smote them was broken.” But “out of the serpent’s root came forth a cockatrice” – Hezekiah – “and his fruit was a fiery, flying serpent” (Isa 14:29 , with 2Ch 26:6-7 ). He stung them worse than his grandfather had done.
And they buried him, &c.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Azariah. In the year of his death (649) Isaiah had his vision (Isa 6:1-9. Joh 12:4)), when the “voice” from the Temple prophesied the Dispersion (see the Structure of Isaiah). Uzziah had been driven from the Temple to a lazar house, when Isaiah saw the vision of the Temple in heaven.
slept with his fathers. See note on Deu 31:16.
Jotham. The first-named of the four kings in whose reigns Isaiah prophesied (Isa 1:1). Micah also began to prophesy and mourn over the coming dispersion of Israel.
in his stead. There had been an interregnum of eleven or twelve years.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
am 3246, bc 758, 2Ch 26:23, Isa 6:1, Uzziah
Reciprocal: 2Ki 15:6 – Azariah 2Ki 15:32 – Jotham 2Ki 15:36 – the rest 2Ki 16:19 – General Mat 1:9 – Joatham
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 15:7. They buried him with his fathers, &c. Not in the very sepulchre of the kings, because he was a leper, (2Ch 26:23,) but in the same field, and very near to the same place, where his ancestors lay interred.