2 Kings 15:10

10 Shallum, son of Jabesh, plotted against Zechariah, attacked him at Kabal Am, killed him, and succeeded him as king.

2 Kings 15:10 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 15:10

And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him
A friend of his, as Josephus ^F17 calls him, encouraged by the dissatisfaction of the people to him:

and smote him before the people, and slew him;
in a public manner, the people consenting to it, and approving of it, not liking Zachariah to be their king;

and reigned in his stead;
though but a very short time.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11. sect. 1.

2 Kings 15:10 In-Context

8 In Azariah's thirty-eighth year as king of Judah, Jeroboam's son Zechariah was king of Israel in Samaria for six months.

9 He did what the LORD considered evil, as his ancestors had done. He didn't turn away from the sins that Jeroboam (Nebat's son) led Israel to commit.

10 Shallum, son of Jabesh, plotted against Zechariah, attacked him at Kabal Am, killed him, and succeeded him as king.

11 Everything else about Zechariah is written in the official records of the kings of Israel.

12 It happened exactly as the LORD had told Jehu: "Four generations of your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel."