Yrs. bef.

839

37 (1)

2 Kin. xiii. 10.

Xin. 14.

JEHOASH (u)
[Elifah dith.]

14

A. D.

839
839

2

839

839

29

AMAZIAH

XIV.

2, I.

825

15 (y)

xiv. 23.

812

xiv. 25.
XV. 2, I.

JEROBOAM II. [Jonah (≈)]

41

825

812

27 (6)

ninth year complete, when Joash of Ifrael reigned alone.
(1) The thirty-feventh of Joash of Jadah is the year in which Joash of Ifrael began to reign with his father; with whom he is
fuppofed to reign two years. But thefe two years are not taken into the account, which must be reckoned from the fortieth, or thirty-

(u) Or Joah. He reigned two years with his father, in all fixteen years.

(x) Thofe two years he reigned with his father; and therefore they are not taken in.

(y) Fourteen years complete.

(a) Or Uzziah, 2 Chron. xxvi. 1. Ifai. i. 1. vi. 1. Amos i. 1.
(x) Jonah, in his younger days, perhaps about twenty-eight, might begin to prophefy about this time.

(b) Amaziah reigned twenty-nine years, namely, fourteen years before Jeroboam II. began to reign, and fifteen years after he
began to reign. How then could his fon Azariah, or Uzziah, fucceed him in the twenty-feventh year of Jeroboam II, when Jeroboam
had reigned but fifteen years when Amaziah died? Ans. If Azariah was fixteen, in the twenty-feventh of Jeroboam (2 Kings xv. 2.)
then he was born in the eleventh year of Jeroboam, and fo was but a minor of four years old in the fifteenth of Jeroboam, when his
father Amaziah died. It may therefore be fuppofed, that he was not inaugurated, or crowned king, till twelve years after, when he
was fixteen years of age, in the twenty-feventh of Jeroboam: the government, in the mean while, being in the hands of a regency.
But to preferve the truth of the Chronology, the twelve years of his minority are included in the fifty-two years which he is faid to
have reigned; which twelve years are to be deducted out of the twenty-feven of Jeroboam's reign; and fo he will be confidered as
king exceeding well, the people were in no hafte to have him crowned.
fucceeding his father in the fifteenth year of Jeroboam. Thus all will stand right. As the regency governed and tutored the young

740

* See page 144 in the note.

(m) Or Shallum.

(n) Or Eliakim, 2 Chron. xxxvi. 4.

(0) Hence began the feventy years captivity, foretold by Jeremiah, chap. xxv. 1, 12. xxix. 10. Dax. ix. 2. () Otherwife called Coniah, and Jeconiah. Jer. xxii. 24, &c. Efth. ii. 6.