2 Kings 15

2 Kings 15:1

TWenty seventh] seeing that Amaziah reigned nine and twenty yeares, 2 Kings 14:2. and that Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash, began to reigne the fifteenth yeare of Amaziah, 2 Kings 14:23. it followeth that this seven and twentieth yeare is about the eleventh yeare after the death of Amaziah, so wee must couclude that there was an interregnum or vacancie of the Royall Seat in Iudah for the space of eleven yeares or there abouts; occasioned peradventure by Azariahs tender age, or by the powerfullnesse of his fathers murtherers, who kept the government in their hands.

2 Kings 15:5

Over the house] had the governing of all things, as generall Lieftenant and officer under the King.

2 Kings 15:13

Vzziah] who is the same as Azariah.

2 Kings 15:16

Tiphsa] it cannot be that which is mentioned 1 Kings 4:24. because this was in the middle of the countrey, and that was upon the frontiers of Syria.

2 Kings 15:30

The twentieth] seeing that v. 33. it is said that hee reigned only sixteen yeares, and that 2 Kings 16:1. it is said that Ahaz the sonne of Iotham began to reigne in the seventeenth yeare of Pekah; wee must conclude that Ioram lived twenty yeares after hee came to bee King: but that foure yeares before hee died, hee resigned the Kingdome to his sonne Ahaz.

2 Kings 15:35

The higher gate] it appeares by 2 Chronicles 23:20. that it was the same which was called the gate of Sur, 2 Kings 11:6. and high, by reason of some singular eminency above the rest: as that through the which the King came into the Temple 2 Kings 16:18. or else to bee understood as Ezec. 9. 2.

2 Kings 15:37

In those] namely about the end of Iorams reigne, about the beginning of Ahaz reigne.