2 Chronicles 24:25

_AND WHEN THEY WERE DEPARTED FROM HIM, (FOR THEY LEFT HIM IN GREAT DISEASES,) HIS OWN SERVANTS CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM FOR THE BLOOD OF THE SONS OF JEHOIADA THE PRIEST, AND SLEW HIM ON HIS BED, AND HE DIED: AND THEY BURIED HIM IN THE CITY OF DAVID, BUT THEY BURIED HIM NOT IN THE SEPULCHRES OF THE KINGS._ They left him in great diseases. The close of his life was embittered by a painful malady, which long confined him to bed. HIS OWN SERVANTS CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM. These two conspirators (whose fathers were Jews, but their mothers aliens) were probably courtiers, who, having constant access to the bed-chamber, could the more easily execute their design. FOR THE BLOOD OF THE SONS - read 'the son' of Jehoiada. Public opinion seems to have ascribed the disasters of his life and reign to that foul crime; and as the king had long lost the esteem and respect of his subjects, neither horror no...

15-27 See what a great judgment on any prince or people, the death of godly, zealous, useful men is. See how necessary it is that we act in religion from inward principle. Then the loss of a parent, a minister, or a friend, will not be losing our religion. Often both princes and inferior people have been flattered to their ruin. True grace alone will enable a man to bring forth fruit unto the end. Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, being filled with the Spirit of prophecy, stood up, and told the people of their sin. This is the work of ministers, by the word of God, as a lamp and a light, to discover the sin of men, and expound the providences of God. They stoned Zechariah to death in the court of the house of the Lord. Observe the dying martyr's words: The Lord look upon it, and require it! This came not from a spirit of revenge, but a spirit of prophecy. God smote Joash with great diseas...

EXPOSITION This chapter contains the entire career of Joash, and is answered to by the twelfth chapter of Kings. It tells of Joash's fidelity to God, and his worship and temple, while Jehoiada's life lasted (2 Chronicles 24:1); of his departure from God and permission of idolatry afterwards (2 Chronicles 24:15-14); of the punishment he received at the hands of the Syrians (2 Chronicles 24:23, 2 Chronicles 24:24); and of his miserable end (2 Chronicles 24:25-14). The d

AND WHEN THEY WERE DEPARTED FROM HIM,.... Having got what wealth and spoil they could: FOR THEY LEFT HIM IN GREAT DISEASES; through the wounds they gave him, and the distress they brought him into: HIS OWN SERVANTS CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM, FOR THE BLOOD OF THE SONS OF JEHOIADA THE PRIEST; for perhaps more than one was slain at the same time; the rest vindicating the cause of their brother, shared the same fate; or the plural is put for the singular: AND SLEW HIM ON HIS BED; in the house of Millo, where he lay ill of his wounds, and sick of his diseases, and could not defend himself: AND HE DIED: of the wounds his servants gave him: AND THEY BURIED HIM IN THE CITY OF DAVID, BUT THEY BURIED HIM NOT IN THE SEPULCHRES OF THE KINGS; see 2 Kings 12:21....

This chapter gives us the story of the reign of Joash. He was the only one of the royal seed who was preserved alive when Athaliah sought to destroy all the family of Ahaziah. He was hidden away for some six years in the temple by his aunt Jehoshabeath, the wife of Jehoiada the high priest, who arranged matters so well that, when the child was seven years old, Jehoiada caused him to be crowned king, and he put to death the cruel she-wolf Athaliah, who had destroyed the royal family. You see, therefore, how much this young king owed to his uncle the high-priest. Now let us read the story of his reign. 2 Chronicles 24:1. _Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem._ He might have reigned much longer had he not erred and turned aside from the right way, and so brought judgment upon himself....

CHAPTER 24 THE TEMPLE REPAIRED, APOSTASY AND ITS RESULTS _ 1. Joash's reign (2 Chronicles 24:1)_ 2. The failure of the priests (2 Chronicles 24:4) 3. The temple repaired (2 Chronicles 24:8) 4. Death of Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:15) 5. The apostasy (2 Chronicles 24:17) 6. The Syrian invasion (2 Chronicles 24:23) 7. The death of Joash ...

Joash as king; his restoration of the Temple. There are some significant points of difference between this account and that of 2 K. According to the latter, the house of God having fallen into disrepair, Joash commands that certain dues and free-will offerings of the people are to be utilised by the priests for undertaking the repairs; the priests, however, while taking the money, do nothing for the repair of the Temple. As the result of a protest against this on the part of the king, the priests promise not to receive any more money from the people; but they refuse to repair the Temple. Thereupon Jehoiada, presumably at the command of the king, places a chest beside the altar into which the worshippers cast their gifts. When sufficient money has been received, the repair of the Temple is proceeded with. In the hands of the Chronicler this account becomes considerably modified. He could...

SONS. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus), App-6, for Jehoiada's one son: thus emphasizing the son who was slain (2 Chronicles 24:20). The Septuagint and Vulgate read it "son" (without the Figure of speech) NOT IN THE SEPULCHRES. As Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:27)....

HIS OWN SERVANTS CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM— These two murderers, whose fathers were Jews, but their mothers aliens, (see the next verse,) were perhaps of the king's bed-chamber, and, having constant access to him, might more easily accomplish their design. However, he was so weak and feeble that he could make no resistance, and had fallen into such contempt and disesteem that his guards cared not what became of him. He was not allowed to be _buried in the sepulchre of the kings._ Though the people could not punish wicked kings for their impieties while they lived, yet they fixed an odium upon their memory when dead; whereby they both preserved the sacredness of the supreme power, and kept kings in some measure under awe, for fear of what might befal them after death; as Grotius remarks, De Jur. B. et P. lib. 1 cap. 3. _FOR THE BLOOD OF THE SONS OF JEHOIADA_— _The blood of the son of Jehoiada...

9. THE REIGN OF JOASH (2 Chronicles 23:16-21) TEXT 2 Chronicles 23:16. And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah's people. 17. And all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 18. And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Jehovah under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Jehovah, to offer the burnt-offerings of Jehovah, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David. 19. And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that none that was unclean in anything should