2 Kings 14:8-14
A.M. 3178. B.C. 826. Amaziah.2Ch 25:17-24Come.11; 2Sa 2:14-17; Pr 13:10; 17:14; 18:6; 20:18; 25:8 The thistle.Jud 9:8-15; 2Sa 12:1-4; 1Ki 4:33; Eze 20:49The word {choach,} which is rendered here, and in 2 Ch 25:18; Job 31:18, thistle, in 1 Sa 13:6, thicket in Isa 34:13, bramble, and in 2 Ch 33:11; Pr 26:9; So 2:2; Ho 9:6 thorn, is probably the black thorn, or sloe tree, the {prunus spinosa} of Linnæus, as the same word signifies in Arabic. There is a vast deal of insolent dignity in this remonstrance of Jehoash; but it has nothing conciliatory; no proposal of making amends for the injury his army had done to the unoffending inhabitants of Judah. (2 Ch 25:10-13.) The comparatively useless thorn, which may by chance lacerate the incautious passenger, is made the emblem of the house of Judah and David, while the house of Jehu is represented by the stately cedar. thine heart.De 8:14; 2Ch 26:16; 32:25; Pr 16:18; Eze 38:2,5,17; Da 5:20-23Hab 2:4; Jas 4:6glory of this.Ex 8:9; Jer 9:23,24; Jas 1:9home. Heb. thy house. why shouldest.2Ch 35:21; Pr 3:30; 15:18; 17:14; 20:3; 25:8; 26:17; Lu 14:31,32 Amaziah.2Ch 25:16,20Beth-shemesh.Jos 19:38; 21:16; 1Sa 6:9-19 was put to the worse. Heb. was smitten. they fled.1Sa 4:10; 2Sa 18:17; 1Ki 22:36 took Amaziah.25:6; 2Ch 33:11; 36:6,10; Job 40:11,12; Pr 16:18; 29:23Isa 2:11,12; Da 4:37; Lu 14:11the gate of Ephraim.2Ch 25:23,24; Ne 8:16; 12:39the corner.Jer 31:38; Zec 14:10 all the gold.24:13; 25:15; 1Ki 7:51; 14:26; 15:18and hostages.18:23; *marg:2 Chronicles 25:13
soldiers of the army. Heb. sons of the band.9fell upon the cities.These Israelites seem to have returned home, when discharged by Amaziah, whose powerful army deterred them from attempting revenge at that time; but when he was engaged in war with the Edomites, they marched from Samaria, and plundered all the cities till they came to Beth-horon, where they slew 3,000 of the inhabitants. Samaria.1Ki 16:24,29Beth-horon.8:5; 1Ki 9:17
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