2 Kings 14 · Verse 23

2 Kings 14:23

In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
2 Kings 14:23, King James Version

2 Kings 14:23 in other translations

BSBIn the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years.
WEBIn the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.
ASVIn the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
YLTIn the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, reigned hath Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel in Samaria--forty and one years,
DARBYIn the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, for forty-one years.
BBEIn the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years.
WebsterIn the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.

What does 2 Kings 14:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
23. Jeroboam, the son of Joash king of Israel--This was Jeroboam II who, on regaining the lost territory, raised the kingdom to great political power (2Ki 14:25), but adhered to the favorite religious policy of the Israelitish sovereigns (2Ki 14:24). While God granted him so great a measure of national prosperity and eminence, the reason is expressly stated (2Ki 14:26, 27) to be that the purposes of the divine covenant forbade as yet the overthrow of the kingdom of the ten tribes (see 2Ki 13:23).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 14:23-29
God raised up the prophet Jonah, and by him declared the purposes of his favour to Israel. It is a sign that God has not cast off his people, if he continues faithful ministers among them. Two reasons are given why God blessed them with those victories: 1. Because the distress was very great, which made them objects of his compassion. 2. Because the decree was not yet gone forth for their destruction. Many prophets there had been in Israel, but none left prophecies in writing till this age, and their prophecies are part of the Bible. Hosea began to prophesy in the reign of this Jeroboam. At the same time Amos prophesied; soon after Micah, then Isaiah, in the days of Ahaz and Hezekiah. Thus God, in the darkest and most degenerate ages of the church, raised up some to be burning and shining lights in it; to their own age, by their preaching and living, and a few by their writings, to reflect light upon us in the last times.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

2 Kings 14:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בִּשְׁנַת֙bish.Natin yearH8141
חֲמֵשׁ\־cha.mesh-fif-H2568
עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה'es.RehteenH6240
שָׁנָ֔הsha.NahyearH8141
לַאֲמַצְיָ֥הוּla.'a.matz.Ya.huof AmaziahH558
בֶן\־ven-[the] son ofH1121
יוֹאָ֖שׁyo.'AshJoashH3101
מֶ֣לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428
יְהוּדָ֑הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
מָ֠לַךְMa.lakhhe became kingH4427
יָרָבְעָ֨םya.ra.ve.'AmJeroboamH3379
בֶּן\־ben-[the] son ofH1121
יוֹאָ֤שׁyo.'AshJoashH3101
מֶֽלֶךְ\־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹןbe.Sho.me.Ronin SamariaH8111
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705
וְאַחַ֖תve.'a.Chatand oneH259
שָׁנָֽה\׃sha.Nahyear[s]H8141

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Kings 14:23

  • Hosea 1:1

    The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

  • Amos 7:9-11

    And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. Then Amaziah the priest of Beth–el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

  • Amos 1:1

    The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

  • 2 Kings 14:27

    And the Lord said not 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A.M. 3179-3220. B.C. 825-784. the fifteenth.
17
Jeroboam.
27; Ho 1:1; Am 1:1; 7:9-11
began to reign."Now he begins to reign alone."

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Context

  • 2 Kings 14:22

    He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

  • 2 Kings 14:23

    In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.

  • 2 Kings 14:24

    And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

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2 Kings 14:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El año quince de Amasías hijo de Joas rey de Judá, comenzó á reinar Jeroboam hijo de Joas sobre Israel en Samaria; y reinó cuarenta y un años.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		*La quinzième année d’Amatsia, fils de Joas, roi de Juda, Jéroboam, fils de Joas, roi d’Israël, commença de régner à Samarie; il régna 41 ans.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Im fünfzehnten Jahre Amazjas, des Sohnes Joas, des Königs von Juda, wurde Jerobeam, der Sohn Joas, des Königs von Israel, König zu Samaria und regierte 41 Jahre.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Anno quintodecimo Amasiæ filii Joas regis Juda, regnavit Jeroboam filius Joas regis Israël in Samaria, quadraginta et uno anno.