John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 14:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And all the people of Judah took Azariah, etc.] Called Uzziah in the next chapter, and so in the book of Chronicles; both names signifying much the same, the one “the help of the Lord”, the other “the strength of the Lord”: (which was sixteen years old;) yet as he began to reign in the twenty seventh year of Jeroboam, (<121501>2 Kings 15:1) and Jeroboam began to reign in the fifteenth yaer of Amaziah, (<121423>2 Kings 14:23), he could be but four years of age, for the solution of which, (see Gill on “<121501>2 Kings 15:1”): and made him king instead of his father Amaziah; which was after his death, and not when he fled to Lachish, as Kimchi thinks.

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