In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Zibiah of Beersheba. Ver. 1. _Forty years reigned he in Jerusalem._] A great part of these years, Jehoiada lived with him; and so long, did he not "eat and drink, and do judgment... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. Ver. 2. _All his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him._] As when Jehoiada died, Jehoash revolted from the Lord. Nero, while he would be instructed by Seneca and Burrhu... [ Continue Reading ]
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. Ver. 3. _But the high places._] _Tyrannus ille trium literarum, mos; _ Custom had so prevailed, that Jehoiada durst not advise the king to cross the people in this superstition, lest it should... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,... [ Continue Reading ]
Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found. Ver. 5. _And let them repair the breaches of the house._] _Labes domus, rupturas, fissuras, scissuras,_ such as the temple had contracted, either b... [ Continue Reading ]
But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. Ver. 6. _The priests had not repaired._] Perhaps because themselves should have no benefit thereby; they should have but their labour for their pains; receiving the money wi... [ Continue Reading ]
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. Ver. 7. _Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada._] It... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. Ver. 8. _And the priests consented._] See on 2 Kings 12:6 .... [ Continue Reading ]
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD. Ver. 9. _But Jehoiada the pri... [ Continue Reading ]
And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD. Ver. 10. _When they saw._] They stood at the door, and might easily see what any one put... [ Continue Reading ]
And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD, Ver. 11. _That did the work._] Though with other men's hands.... [ Continue Reading ]
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair [it]. Ver. 12. _For the house to repair it._] See on 2 Kings 12:5 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD: Ver. 13. _Howbeit there were not made,_] viz., Till the fabric was finished; but afterwards they... [ Continue Reading ]
But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD. Ver. 14. _But they gave that to the workmen._] Who both bought the materials, and wrought them: providing both for their credit and their work, that it might go on end, as they say, and have nothing to hinder it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully. Ver. 15. _For they dealt faithfully._] This was much to their commendation. See on Nehemiah 7:2 .... [ Continue Reading ]
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'. Ver. 16. _The trespass money._] Which was for omissions. _ And sin money._] Which was for commissions, saith Tostatus. Or for wrongs done the Lord in his holy things, either ignorantly or wittingly, a... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. Ver. 17. _Then Hazael king of Syria went up._] "Then," when Jehoiada was dead, and Jehoash revolted. 2Ch 24:23 _ And Hazael set his face._] He resolved that he would take Jerusal... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael ki... [ Continue Reading ]
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Ver. 19. _Are they not written, &c.?_] And therehence extracted, many of them by Ezra. 2 Chronicles 24:27 _, &c._... [ Continue Reading ]
And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla. Ver. 20. _And slew Joash._] After that the Syrian rovers had first wounded him, and, perhaps by torturing him, left him under sore diseases, 2Ch 24:23-25 according to what holy Zechariah... [ Continue Reading ]
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. Ver. 21. _For Jozachar the son of Shimeath._] An Ammonitess. _ And Jehozabad the son of Shom... [ Continue Reading ]