2 Chronicles 24:26

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...

Verse 2 Chronicles 24:26. _THESE ARE THEY THAT CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM_] The two persons here mentioned were certainly not _Jews_; the _mother_ of one was an _Ammonitess_, and the _mother_ of the other was a _Moabitess_. Who their _fathers_ were we know not; they were probably _foreigners_ and _aliens_. Some suppose that these persons were of the _king's_ _chamber_, and therefore could have the easiest access to him. It has been, and is still, the _folly_ of kings to have foreigners for their valets and most confidential servants, and they have often been the causes of murders and treacheries of different kinds. _Foreigners_ should be banished from the person of the sovereign by strong and efficient laws: even in this country they have often been the cause of much political wo....

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 THESE ARE THEY THAT CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM, ZABAD THE SON OF SHIMEAH AN AMMONITESS,.... Called Jozachar, the son of Shimeah, 2 Kings 12:21, AND JEHOZABAD THE SON OF SHIMRITH A MOABITESS; called in the same place the son of Shomer....

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...

ZABAD... JEHOZABAD. Slaves, but the executioners of God's judgment. Zabad had another name (Jozachar), used in 2 Kings 12:21. SHIMRITH. In 2 Kings 12:21 he has another name, "Shomer", if not his father's name....

_Zabad … a Moabitess_ In Kings "Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer" (nothing being said of the nationality of the murderers). The Chronicler's object no doubt is to trace a connexion between the apostasy of Joash and its punishment, between the king's foreign worship and his murder by men of foreign descent....

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

REIGN OF JOASH (CONCLUDED) An account of the repair of the Temple, the idolatry of Joash after the death of Jehoiada, the murder of Jehoiada's son, and the king's violent death. The early part of this chapter reproduces 2 Kings 11:21 to 2 Kings 12:16, with unimportant variations, but 2 Chronicles 24:15 are entirely supplementary, and give a different account of the closing years of the reign of Joash from that contained in 2 K....