Jehoahaz Jeho'ahaz Jehoash Jeho'ash Joash Jo'ash Judah Reign Reigned Rule Ruling Samaria Sama'ria Seventh Sixteen Thirty Thirty-seventh
13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king {g} of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.
(g) His chief purpose is to describe the kingdom of Judah, and how God performed his promise made to the house of David: but in the process he shows how Israel was afflicted and punished for their great idolatry, who though they had now degenerated, yet God both by sending them many prophets and various punishments, called them to him again.
13:10-19 Jehoash, the king, came to Elisha, to receive his dying counsel and blessing. It may turn much to our spiritual advantage, to attend the sick-beds and death-beds of good men, that we may be encouraged in religion by the living comforts they have from it in a dying hour. Elisha assured the king of his success; yet he must look up to God for direction and strength; must reckon his own hands not enough, but go on, in dependence upon Divine aid. The trembling hands of the dying prophet, as they signified the power of God, gave this arrow more force than the hands of the king in his full strength. By contemning the sign, the king lost the thing signified, to the grief of the dying prophet. It is a trouble to good men, to see those to whom they wish well, forsake their own mercies, and to see them lose advantages against spiritual enemies.
Israel Jehoahaz Jeho'ahaz Jehoash Jeho'ash Joash Jo'ash Judah Reign Reigned Rule Ruling Samaria Sama'ria Seventh Sixteen Thirty Thirty-Seventh
Israel Jehoahaz Jeho'ahaz Jehoash Jeho'ash Joash Jo'ash Judah Reign Reigned Rule Ruling Samaria Sama'ria Seventh Sixteen Thirty Thirty-Seventh
