2 Kings 13:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.

Ver. 1. In the three and twentieth year of Joash.] In the tenth year of his reign, the city of Carthage was built by Queen Dido, as Josephus reporteth out of the annals of the Tyrians. a This discrediteth Virgil's poem of the hot affection between Dido and Aeneas, dead above two hundred years before.

a Lib. i. contra Appion.

2 Kings 13:1

1 In the threea and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.