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He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, 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 prophet, which [was] of Gathhepher.
2 Kings 14:25 — KJV
Coast. Literally, “boundary.” Jeroboam restored the nation to its original borders.
The entering of Hamath. This expression is used to designate the northern limit of the nation (see on Numbers 34:8; see also Joshua 13:5; Judges 3:3; 1 Kings 8:65; and Amos 6:14). Ezekiel also set Hamath as the northern limit of the state (Ezekiel 47:16; 48:1). Under the reign of Solomon the nation reached this region as its boundary (2 Chronicles 8:3, 4).
Sea of the plain. The Dead Sea (see Numbers 34:12; Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 3:16). The territory east of the Jordan had been lost to Israel during the reigns of Jehu (2 Kings 10:32, 33) and Jehoahaz (2 Kings 13:3, 25), and was partially recovered by Jehoash (2 Kings 13:25).
Jonah. This is the prophet who was sent to Nineveh (Jonah 1:1, 2). Jonah had a wider ministry than the book of Jonah records. The observation here made that the ministry of Jonah occurred during the reign of Jeroboam II enables us to fix the approximate date of the incidents recorded in the book of Jonah.
According to the tentative chronology employed in this commentary, the kings who reigned over Assyria during the reign of Jeroboam II are Adad-nirari III, 810-782; Shalmaneser IV, 782-772; Ashur-dan III, 772-754; and Ashur-nirari V, 754-746 (see p. 77).
Gath-hepher. A place in the borders of Zebulun (Joshua 19:13), 2 3/4 mi. (4.4 km.) north by east of Nazareth. An alleged tomb of Jonah is still exhibited there. The site now bears the name Khirbet ez-Zurra‘ in the modern Arabic.
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