2 Chronicles 25:1

Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Amaziah	אֲמַצְיָ֔הוּ 'a.matz.Ya.hu	H558	Amatsjah · proper noun, a man's name
twenty	עֶשְׂרִ֨ים 'es.Rim	H6242	twenty · noun, common masculine plural absolute
five	וְחָמֵ֤שׁ ve.cha.Mesh	H2568	five · conjunction + noun, common both genders singular absolute
years	שָׁנָה֙ sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
old	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
reign	מָלַ֣ךְ ma.Lakh	H4427	to reign · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
reigned	מָלַ֖ךְ ma.Lakh	H4427	to reign · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
twenty	וְעֶשְׂרִ֣ים ve.'es.Rim	H6242	twenty · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural absolute
nine	וָתֵ֙שַׁע֙ va.Te.sha'	H8672	nine or (ordinal) ninth · conjunction + noun, common both genders singular absolute
years	שָׁנָ֔ה sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
Jerusalem	בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם bi.ru.sha.Lim	H3389	Jerushalaim or Jerushalem · preposition + proper noun, a place name
mother’s	אִמּ֔וֹ 'i.Mo	H517	a mother (as the bond of the family) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
name	וְשֵׁ֣ם ve.Shem	H8034	an appellation · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
Jehoaddan	יְהוֹעַדָּ֖ן ye.ho.'a.Dan	H3086	Jehoaddin or Jehoaddan · proper noun, a woman's name
Jerusalem	מִירוּשָׁלָֽיִם mi.ru.sha.La.yim	H3389	Jerushalaim or Jerushalem · preposition + proper noun, a place name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Kings 14:1-6 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 25:1-13

Here is, I. The general character of Amaziah: He did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, worshipped the true God, kept the temple service a going, and countenanced religion in his kingdom; but he did not do it with a perfect heart (Ch2 25:2), that is, he was not a man of serious piety or devotion himself, nor had he any zeal for the exercises of religion. He was no enemy to it, but a cool and indifferent friend. Such is the character of too many in this Laodicean age: they do that which is good, but not with the heart, not with a perfect heart. II. A necessary piece of justice which he did upon the traitors that murdered his father: he put them to death, Ch2 25:3. Though we should…

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John Gill on 2 Chronicles 25:1

Amaziah was twenty five years old when he began to reign,.... Of these verses; see Gill on 2 Kings 14:2. See Gill on 2 Kings 14:3. See Gill on 2 Kings 14:5. See Gill on 2 Kings 14:6.

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 25:1

The twenty-nine years of Amaziah’s reign (796–767 BC) included a long co-regency with his son Uzziah from 792 BC.

Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Clarke, Gill, Calvin and Keil & Delitzsch are in the public domain; Tyndale Open Study Notes © Tyndale House Publishers, CC BY-SA 4.0 — all from the Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org). Rashi: the Rosenbaum & Silbermann Pentateuch (public domain) and the Judaica Press and Metsudah Tanakh (CC BY), via Sefaria. Spurgeon's Treasury of David: public domain (lyteword's markdown edition, CC0).

Dictionary and topics

Jehoaddan — Jehovah his ornament, the wife of King Jehoash, and mother of King Amaziah (2 Kings 14:2).
Jehoaddan · Mother of Amaziah — Mother of Amaziah
Kings · Who reigned over Judah: Amaziah — Who reigned over Judah: Amaziah

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).