In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah as king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah began to reign as king of Judah. He stands in the succession of Judah's kings as Ahaziah, the wicked Athaliah, Joash, Amaziah, Azariah or Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, and Jehoahaz. His reign ran alongside the later kings of Israel from Joram through Jehu, Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam II, Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, and Hoshea, when Israel came to an end by the invasion of Shalmaneser of Assyria completed by Sargon his successor and the tribes were carried away captive and scattered. The verse belongs to the nearly 300 years covered by 2 Kings 7 to 23.
Jotham reigned for 16 years while the northern kingdom of Israel continued through its later kings. His time belongs with the ministry of Elisha, Hosea, Jonah, and Amos, and with the prophesying in Judah of Joel, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, and Nahum. Jotham is counted among Judah's good kings. Judah's record in this period shows that under righteous, faithful rulers the kingdom always prospered, yet after such prosperity rulers turned from God to gross idolatry, bringing calamity upon themselves and their people.
In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah as king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah began to reign as king of Judah. He stands in the succession of Judah's kings as Ahaziah, the wicked Athaliah, Joash, Amaziah, Azariah or Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, and Jehoahaz. His reign ran alongside the later kings of Israel from Joram through Jehu, Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam II, Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, and Hoshea, when Israel came to an end by the invasion of Shalmaneser of Assyria completed by Sargon his successor and the tribes were carried away captive and scattered. The verse belongs to the nearly 300 years covered by 2 Kings 7 to 23.
Jotham reigned for 16 years while the northern kingdom of Israel continued through its later kings. His time belongs with the ministry of Elisha, Hosea, Jonah, and Amos, and with the prophesying in Judah of Joel, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, and Nahum. Jotham is counted among Judah's good kings. Judah's record in this period shows that under righteous, faithful rulers the kingdom always prospered, yet after such prosperity rulers turned from God to gross idolatry, bringing calamity upon themselves and their people.