2 Kings 14:15-16

(15, 16) Now the rest . . .—Comp. 2 Kings 13:12-13, where the reign of Jehoash is already summed up, though not altogether in the same phraseology. The compiler probably found 2 Kings 14:15-16, in their present position in the document from which he derived the entire section, 2 Kings 14:8-17; a document which was not the same as that upon which 2 Kings 13:0 depends, as appears from the differences of language in the two passages.

The two verses are almost necessary here as a suitable introduction of the statement of 2 Kings 14:17, that Amaziah survived Jehoash by fifteen years.