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Amaziah’s Reign over Judah

14 In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Joash son of Joahaz,[a] Joash’s[b] son Amaziah became king over Judah. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother[c] was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:1 sn The name Joahaz is an alternate form of Jehoahaz.
  2. 2 Kings 14:1 sn The referent here is Joash of Judah (see 12:21), not Joash of Israel, mentioned earlier in the verse.
  3. 2 Kings 14:2 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”