King James Version
2 Kings 14:21 in the King James Version says “And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.”
2 Kings 14:21 · KJV
Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
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properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“And all the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“of Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“old”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“which was sixteen”
H8337six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal, sixth
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“instead of his father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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