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2 Kings 13:1

in 2 Kings 13

In the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash son of Ahaziah over Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria seventeen years.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.

KJV

In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.

This verse in 2 Kings 13

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
In this chapter the history of the kingdom of Israel is traced through the two reigns of Jehoahaz and Jehoash. In 2 Kings 14 the history of Judah is resumed. In the three and twentieth year - Rather, the “one and twentieth year.” See 2Ki 13:10.

This site's exposition

Jehoahaz the son of Jehu

on 2 Kings 13:1-3

Jehu's own dynasty had been promised four generations on the throne for striking down Ahab's house, and his son Jehoahaz opens that promise by walking the same road Jeroboam laid down. The narrator names the sin before he names the punishment: the anger of the LORD delivers Israel into Hazael's hand for the whole reign, the same king whose rise Elijah was told to anoint at Horeb. A dynasty raised up in judgment on one house still answers for its own choices.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בִּשְׁנַ֨תin year

    bishnatH8141877 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֤יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242315 times

  • וְשָׁלֹשׁ֙and three

    veshaloshH7969432 times

  • שָׁנָ֔הyear

    shanahH8141877 times

  • לְיוֹאָ֥שׁof Joash

    leyoashH310147 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֖הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH27437 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH44282525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֑הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • מָ֠לַךְhe became king

    malakhH4427348 times

  • יְהוֹאָחָ֨זJehoahaz

    yehoachazH305920 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • יֵה֤וּאJehu

    yehu'H305858 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹןin Samaria

    beshomeronH8111109 times

  • שְׁבַ֥עseven-

    sheva'H7651394 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֖הteen

    ʾesrehH6240338 times

  • שָׁנָֽה׃year[s]

    shanahH8141877 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Kings 11:21

    Joash was seven years old when he became king.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 24:1–14

      Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

    • 2 Kings 22:1

      Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

  • Through

    2 Kings 11:4

    Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 11:19

      He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the…

    • 2 Kings 11:9

      So the commanders of hundreds did everything that Jehoiada the priest had ordered. Each of them took his men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty—and came to Jehoiada the…

    • 2 Kings 11:17

      Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.

    • 2 Chronicles 15:12

      Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.

    • Joshua 24:25

      On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.

  • Through

    2 Kings 8:26

    Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 22:2

      Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.