Bible Strands
2 Kings 14:27
and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator explains the preservation of the northern kingdom during Jeroboam II’s reign, noting that Israel’s severe oppression had left no human helper.
The words — דִבֶּר (dibber, “he had spoken”) and מְחוֹת (mechot, “to wipe out”) frame the clause that Yahweh previously declared He would not erase Israel’s name from under heaven.
The thread — The text links to Yahweh’s covenant compassion in 2 Kings 13:23, His provision of a deliverer in 2 Kings 13:5, and the lexical parallel to Exodus 32:32 where Moses requests to be blotted from God’s book.
Why it lands — The passage states that national survival depends on prior divine speech rather than human strength, requiring readers to attribute present deliverance to covenant promise and to reject self-reliance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 13:23 But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
- 2 Kings 13:5 So the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel lived in their own homes as they had before.
- Exodus 32:32 Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
- Deuteronomy 9:14 Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
- Deuteronomy 25:19 When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
- Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- 2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
- Psalms 69:28 May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
- Hosea 1:6 Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.
- Romans 11:2 God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel: