2 Kings 14:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He restored the coast, &c., from Hamath Which was the northern border of the kingdom of Israel; unto the sea of the plain The Dead sea, which was once a goodly plain, and was their southern border. Which he spake by his servant Jonah Or Jonas; one of the lesser prophets. The only mention that we have of this prophet is in this passage, and in the account of his famous mission to Nineveh, in considering which we shall say more concerning him. What the prophecies were by which he encouraged Jeroboam to proclaim war against the king of Syria, is nowhere recorded. But as we have not every thing which the prophets did write, so several prophets did not commit any of their predictions to writing. From this place, however, we learn, that God was so gracious to the Israelites, wicked as they were, as to continue a race of prophets among them, even after Elijah and Elisha were dead. See Patrick and Dodd. Happy that land which is thus favoured! which has a succession of prophets running parallel with a succession of princes; that the word of the Lord may endure for ever!