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2 Kings 15:8

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In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria six months.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

KJV

In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

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This verse in 2 Kings 15

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
In the thirty and eighth year - Rather, according to the previous numbers 2Ki 14:23; 2Ki 15:2, the 27th year of Azariah. Some suppose an interregnum between Jeroboam and Zachariah, which, however, is very improbable.

This site's exposition

Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel

on 2 Kings 15:8-9

Zachariah is Jeroboam the second's son and the last of Jehu's line, and his six months on the throne show how fast the north's stability collapses once its strongest king dies. The formula that has measured every northern king since the first Jeroboam returns here: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, a sentence this chapter repeats four times over four different kings, at verses 9, 18, 24 and 28. One dynasty's whole record is compressed into a single inherited sin.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

on 2 Kings 15:8-10

In his fate was fulfilled the prophecy addressed to Jehu (2Ki 10:30; also Ho 1:4), that his family would possess the throne of Israel for four generations; and accordingly Jehoahaz, Joash, Jehoram, and Zechariah were his successors--but there his dynasty terminated; and perhaps it was the public knowledge of this prediction that prompted the murderous design of Shallum.

The words behind it

16 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

    bishnatH8141 →877 times

  • שְׁלֹשִׁ֤יםthirty

    sheloshimH7970 →172 times

  • וּשְׁמֹנֶה֙and eight

    ushemonehH8083 →109 times

  • שָׁנָ֔הyear

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • לַעֲזַרְיָ֖הוּof Azariah

    laazaryahuH5838 →49 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֑הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • מָ֠לַךְhe became king

    malakhH4427 →348 times

  • זְכַרְיָ֨הוּZechariah

    zekharyahuH2148 →43 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H1121 →4930 times

  • יָרָבְעָ֧םJeroboam

    yaraveamH3379 →104 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • בְּשֹׁמְר֖וֹןin Samaria

    beshomeronH8111 →109 times

  • שִׁשָּׁ֥הsix

    shishahH8337 →216 times

  • חֳדָשִֽׁים׃months

    chodashimH2320 →284 times

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

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 14:29And Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. And his son Zechariah reigned in his place.2 works2 Kings 14:16–17And Jehoash rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And his son Jeroboam reigned in his place.2 works2 Kings 15:1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah.2 works2 Kings 15:13In the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah’s reign over Judah, Shallum son of Jabesh became king, and he reigned in Samaria one full month.2 works2 Kings 15:27In the fifty-second year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty years.2 works2 Kings 14:21Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.1 works

The walk

5 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 14:21

    Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 3:12

      Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

    • Matthew 1:8–9

      Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.

    • 2 Kings 21:24

      But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

    • 2 Kings 15:13

      In the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah’s reign over Judah, Shallum son of Jabesh became king, and he reigned in Samaria one full month.

    • 2 Chronicles 26:1

      All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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