Zachariah, son of Jeroboam, became king of Israel after his father died. His reign fulfilled a word given to Jehu in 2 Kings 10:30, that his children to the fourth generation would sit on Israel’s throne, because he had done what was right in God’s eyes against the house of Ahab. The same spelling marks another man: the father of Abi, who became the mother of King Hezekiah, in 2 Kings 18:2. Second Chronicles 29:1 spells that name Zechariah. The two men share a name and little else. One was a king, the other mainly remembered through his daughter and her son.
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And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
Remembered by the Lord. (1.) Son of Jeroboam II., king of Israel. On the death of his father there was an interregnum of ten years, at the end of which he succeeded to the throne, which he occupied only six months, having been put to death by Shallum, who usurped the throne. “He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done” (2 Kings 14:29; 15:8-12). In him the dynasty of Jehu came to an end.
(2.) The father of Abi, who was the mother of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:2).
William Smith, 1884
(remembered by Jehovah), or properly Zechariah.
(1.) Son of Jeroboam II., fourteenth king of Israel, and the last of the house of Jehu. There is a difficulty about the date of his reign. Most chronologers assume an interregnum of eleven years between Jeroboam’s death and Zachariah’s accession. The latter event took place B.C. 772-1. His reign lasted only six months. He was killed in a conspiracy of which Shallum was the head, and by which the prophecy in (2 Kings 10:30) was accomplished,
(2.) The father of Abi or Abijah, Hezekiah’s mother. (2 Kings 18:2)