2 Kings 12:20

_AND HIS SERVANTS AROSE, AND MADE A CONSPIRACY, AND SLEW JOASH IN THE HOUSE OF MILLO, WHICH GOETH DOWN TO SILLA._ His servants arose ... and slew Joash in the house of Millo - (see the notes at 1 Kings 9:24; 2 Chronicles 24:25.)...

17-21 Let us review the character of Jehoash, and consider what we may learn from it. When we see what a sad conclusion there was to so promising a beginning, it ought to make us seek into our spiritual declinings. If we know any thing of Christ as the foundation of our faith and hope, let us desire to know nothing but Christ. May the work of the blessed Spirit on our souls be manifest; may we see, feel, and be earnest, in seeking after Jesus in all his fulness, suitableness, and grace, that our souls may be brought over from dead works to serve the living and true God....

Verse 2 Kings 12:20. _THE HOUSE OF MILLO_] Was a royal palace, built by David; (see 2 Samuel 5:9); and _Silla_ is supposed to be the name of the _road_ or _causeway_ that led to it. _Millo_ was situated between the old city of Jerusalem, and the city of David....

A CONSPIRACY - Compare the marginal reference Joash, either from a suspicion of intended treason, or from some other unknown cause, took up his abode in the fortress of Millo 1 Kings 9:24. This conspiracy was connected with religion. Soon after the death of Jehoiada, Joash had apostatised; had renewed the worship of Baal; and, despite of many prophetic warnings, had persisted in his evil courses, even commanding Zechariah to be slain when he rebuked them 2 Chronicles 24:18. The conspirators, who wished to avenge Zechariah, no doubt wished also to put down the Baal worship. In this it appears that they succeeded. For, though Amaziah punished the actual murderers after a while 2 Kings 1

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 12:1 THE REIGN OF JOASH._ _THE REPAIR OF THE TEMPLE. WAR OF JOASH WITH HAZAEL, AND HIS DEATH BY A CONSPIRACY. 2 KINGS 12:1 The writer of Kings is extremely brief and incomplete in his account of the reign of Joash. He seems to have had a great tenderness for him, and to have determined that he would put on record nothing to his discredit. We have to go to Chronicles ...

AND HIS SERVANTS AROSE,.... This was after he had slain Zechariah the son of Jehoiada, who reproved him for his idolatry; and after a second expedition of the king of Syria, who came to Jerusalem, and spoiled it, and left Jehoash diseased, as is recorded in 2 Chronicles 24:23, AND MADE A CONSPIRACY; not to get the kingdom into their hands, for his son succeeded him, but to avenge the death of Zechariah; AND SLEW JEHOASH IN THE HOUSE OF MILLO, WHICH GOETH DOWN TO SILLA; these are both names of places; perhaps the latter is mentioned, to distinguish this Bethmillo from Millo in Zion; or rather that itself is meant, and described by the descent from it to a causeway, as Silla may signify, which led to the royal palace....

4. JEHOASH, THE TEMPLE REPAIRED, AND THE DEATH OF JEHOASH CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Jehoash's (Joash) Reign (2 Kings 12:1; 2 Chronicles 24:2)_ 2. The Failure of the Priests (2 Kings 12:4; 2 Chronicles 24:4) 3. The Temple Repaired (2 Kings 12:9; 2 Chronicles 24:8) 4. Hazael and Jehoash (2 Kings 12:17) 5. The Dea

2 KINGS 12. REIGN OF JOASH AND HIS REPAIR OF THE TEMPLE. 2 Kings 12:1 is in the usual annalistic style of the Deuteronomist. It is followed by a curious extract from the Temple records (2 Kings 12:4 ff.), similar to those found in 2 Kings 16:10 and 2 Kings 22:3 to 2 Kings 23:24. This relates to the provision of money for the repair of the Temple. Two things deserve attention (2 Kings 12:4). The first is that the sources of the Temple revenue are given as ...

SLEW JOASH. See note on 2 Kings 8:26. MILLO. See note on 1 Kings 9:15. "The house" would be in connection with it....

_And his servants arose_ The Chronicler tells us that the Syrians left the king suffering from -great diseases", perhaps from wounds received in some battle against the Syrians. He adds also that it was because of the blood -of the _sons_of Jehoiada" that the conspiracy was formed against Joash. From which it would seem that not Zechariah only but the whole family of Jehoiada had been put to death by the ungrateful king. _slew Joash_in _the house of Millo_ R.V. SMOTE JOASH AT &c. We see from 2 Chronicles that the king was lying sick at this place. So it probably was some royal residence, or some part thereof. On -Millo", the name of some part of the fortifications of Jerusalem, cf. 1 Kings 9:15. Perhaps the place indicated in this verse may have been part of that fortress. The -house of Millo" is mentioned before this, in...