GOD struck the king with a plague, and he was a leper until the day of his death; he lived in isolated quarters,ain isolated quarters Meaning of Heb. uncertain. while Jotham, the king’s son, was in charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
He did what was displeasing to GOD, as his predecessors had done; he did not depart from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויעש
386
הרע
275
בעיני
142
יהוה
26
כאשר
521
עשו
376
אבתיו
419
לא
31
סר
260
מחטאות
464
ירבעם
322
בןנבט
113
אשר
501
החטיא
33
אתישראל
942
II Kings 15:10
Gematria: 3162
ויקשרעליושלםבןיבשויכהוקבלעםוימיתהווימלךתחתיו
Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him down before the peoplebbefore the people Some Septuagint mss. read “at Ibleam.” and killed him, and succeeded him as king.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקשר
616
עליו
116
שלם
370
בןיבש
364
ויכהו
47
קבלעם
242
וימיתהו
477
וימלך
106
תחתיו
824
II Kings 15:11
Gematria: 3079
ויתרדבריזכריההנםכתוביםעלספרדבריהימיםלמלכיישראל
The other events of Zechariah’s reign are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
This was in accord with the word that GOD had spoken to Jehu:cthe word that GOD had spoken to Jehu Cf. 10.30. “Four generations of your descendants shall occupy the throne of Israel.” And so it came about.
Then Menahem son of Gadi set out from Tirzah and came to Samaria; he attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him, and he succeeded him as king.
At that time, [marching] from Tirzah,d[marching] from Tirzah Meaning of Heb. uncertain. Menahem subdued Tiphsah and all who were in it, and its territory; and because it did not surrender, he massacred [its people] and ripped open all its pregnant women.
King Pul of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver that he might support him and strengthen his hold on the kingdom.
Menahem exacted the money from Israel: every man of means had to pay fifty shekels of silver for the king of Assyria. The king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.
His aide, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him and struck him down in the royal palace in Samaria; with him were fifty Gileadites, with men from Argob and Arieh;ewith men from Argob and Arieh Meaning of Heb. uncertain. and he killed him and succeeded him as king.
In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor—Gilead, Galilee, the entire region of Naphtali; and he deported the inhabitantsfthe inhabitants Heb. “them.” to Assyria.
Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah, attacked him, and killed him. He succeeded him as king in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.
However, the shrines were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings at the shrines. It was he who built the Upper Gate of the House of GOD.