Seven years old was Jehoash, &c. Being so very young, he was very unfit for so weighty a charge; but he was under the direction of so excellent a counsellor, that, while Jehoiada lived, all things went well, and the nation was prosperous and happy. But after that good man was dead, he was seduced by some great men about him to idolatry, (2 Chronicles 24:17,) which shows him to have been a weak prince, who wanted judgment in things of the greatest moment.

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