John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 12:1

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign, etc.] So that he reigned twenty one or twenty two years contemporary with Jehu’s reign, for Jehu reigned twenty eight years: and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem; the same number of years David and Solomon reigned: and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba; a city in the tribe of Simeon, in the extreme part of the land of Canaan southward; her name in the Chaldee dialect is Tabitha, the same with Dorcas in Greek, (<440936>Acts 9:36).

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