2 Kings 14 · Verse 19

2 Kings 14:19

Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
2 Kings 14:19, King James Version

2 Kings 14:19 in other translations

BSBAnd conspirators plotted against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.
WEBThey made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.
ASVAnd they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
YLTAnd they make a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fleeth to Lachish, and they send after him to Lachish, and put him to death there,
DARBYAnd they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish; and they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
BBENow they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
WebsterNow they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

What does 2 Kings 14:19 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 14:19-20
19-20. they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem--Amaziah's apostasy (2Ch 25:27) was followed by a general maladministration, especially the disastrous issue of the war with Israel. The ruinous condition of Jerusalem, the plunder of the temple, and the loss of their children who were taken as hostages [2Ki 14:13, 14], lost him the respect and attachment not of the grandees only, but of his subjects generally, who were in rebellion. The king fled in terror to Lachish, a frontier town of the Philistines, where, however, he was traced and murdered. His friends had his corpse brought without any pomp or ceremony, in a chariot to Jerusalem, where he was interred among his royal ancestors. 2Ki 14:21, 22. Azariah Succeeds Him.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 19 They made a conspiracy against him - His defeat by Jehoash, and the consequent pillaging of the temple, and emptying the royal exchequer, and the dismantling of Jerusalem, had made him exceedingly unpopular; so that probably the whole of the last fifteen years of his life were a series of troubles and distresses.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 14:15-22

Amaziah survived his conqueror fifteen years. He was slain by his own subjects. Azariah, or Uzziah, seems to have been very young when his father was slain. Though the years of his reign are reckoned from that event, he was not fully made king till eleven years afterwards.

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2 Kings 14:19 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּקְשְׁר֨וּvai.yik.she.Ruand people conspiredH7194
עָלָ֥יו'a.Lavon himH5921
קֶ֛שֶׁרKe.shera conspiracyH7195
בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖םbi.ru.sha.Limin JerusalemH3389
וַיָּ֣נָסvai.Ya.nosand he fledH5127
לָכִ֑ישָׁהla.Khi.shahLachish towardsH3923
וַיִּשְׁלְח֤וּvai.yish.le.Chuand they sentH7971
אַֽחֲרָיו֙'a.cha.Ravafter himH310
לָכִ֔ישָׁהla.Khi.shahLachish towardsH3923
וַיְמִתֻ֖הוּvay.mi.Tu.huand they put to death himH4191
שָֽׁם\׃ShamthereH8033

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Cross references for 2 Kings 14:19

  • Joshua 10:31

    And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

  • 2 Kings 18:17

    And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab–shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

  • 2 Kings 18:14

    And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

  • 2 Kings 15:10

    And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Chronicles 25:27-28

    Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the Lord they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there. And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.

  • Joshua 10:3

    Wherefore Adoni–zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,

  • 2 Kings 12:20-21

    And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla. For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 21:23

    And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

  • Micah 1:13

    O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

  • 2 Kings 15:25

    But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

  • 2 Kings 15:30

    And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

  • 2 Kings 15:14

    For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A.M. 3194. B.C. 810. they made.
12:20,21; 15:10,14,25,30; 21:23; 2Ch 25:27,28
fled to Lachish.
Jos 10:31; Mic 1:13

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Context

  • 2 Kings 14:18

    And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Kings 14:19

    Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

  • 2 Kings 14:20

    And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

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2 Kings 14:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		E hicieron conspiración contra él en Jerusalem, y él huyó á Lachîs; mas enviaron tras él á Lachîs, y allá lo mataron.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et on fit une conspiration contre lui à Jérusalem, et il s’enfuit à Lakis; et on envoya après lui à Lakis, et là on le mit à mort.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und sie machten zu Jerusalem eine Verschwörung wider ihn, und er floh nach Lachis; und sie sandten ihm nach bis Lachis und töteten ihn daselbst.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Factaque est contra eum conjuratio in Jerusalem: at ille fugit in Lachis. Miseruntque post eum in Lachis, et interfecerunt eum ibi: