Scofield Reference Bible Notes
2 Kings 15

2Ki 15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

the high places were not removed

2Ki 15:35; 2Ki 12:3; 14:4.

2Ki 15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.

the LORD smote the king

2Ch 26:16-21.

2Ki 15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

they buried him with his fathers

2Ch 26:23.

2Ki 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

smote him

As prophesied, Amos 7:9.

2Ki 15:12 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.

Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation

2Ki 10:30.

2Ki 15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

Uzziah

Matthew 1:8, 9 called Ozias, 2 Kings 15:1 called Azariah.

2Ki 15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

Tirzah

1Ki 14:17.

2Ki 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

Tiphsah

1Ki 4:24.

2Ki 15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land

1Ch 5:26; Isa 9:1; Hos 8:9.

talent

One talent = £410, or $1,940 [In 1917].

2Ki 15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

shekel

One shekel = 2s. 9d., or 65 cents [In 1917].

2Ki 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.

Pekah the son of Remaliah

Isa 7:1.

2Ki 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

Tiglathpileser king of Assyria

1Ch 5:26; Isa 9:1.

Ijon

1Ki 15:20.

2Ki 15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead

2Ki 17:1; Hos 10:3, 7, 15.

2Ki 15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

Jotham

2Ch 27:1.

2Ki 15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah

Isa 7:1-17.