John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 14:25

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He restored the coast of Israel, etc.] The cities upon it, which had been taken away from them by their enemies: from the entering of Hamath; which was the northern border of the land of Canaan, the entrance into it from Syria, (see <043408>Numbers 34:8), unto the sea of the plain: of Jordan, called sometimes the salt sea and the Dead Sea; the lake Asphaltites, as Josephus f157, where formerly stood Sodom and Gomorrah: according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai; the same with him whose prophecy among the small prophets bears this name; and though his prophecy concerning Jeroboam’s success and victories is not there, nor anywhere else, recorded at length, yet needed not to be doubted of; this is the first of the prophets spoken of whose books are extant: which was of Gathhepher; a city in the tribe of Zebulun, (<061913>Joshua 19:13), which contradicts a notion of the Jews, that no prophet came out of Galilee, when the very first of those that were the penmen of the books of prophecies was from thence, (see <430752>John 7:52).

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