2 Kings 14:21-22 - Exposition

SUCCESSION OF AZARIAH AND RESUMPTION OF THE WAR WITH EDOM . Though reserving his account of the reign of Azariah to the next chapter (verses 1-7), the writer is led by the circumstances of Amaziah's death to mention at once the fact of his son Azariah's succession, and the first important act of his reign, the resumption of war with Edom. He then breaks off suddenly, in order to interpose an account of the reign of Jeroboam II ; who was contemporary with Amaziah during fourteen years of his reign,