2 Kings 12 - Introduction
_JEHOASH REIGNETH WELL ALL THE DAYS OF JEHOIADA: HE COLLECTS MONEY TO REPAIR THE TEMPLE: HE IS SLAIN BY HIS SERVANTS, AND SUCCEEDED BY HIS SON AMAZIAH._ _Before Christ 878._... [ Continue Reading ]
_JEHOASH REIGNETH WELL ALL THE DAYS OF JEHOIADA: HE COLLECTS MONEY TO REPAIR THE TEMPLE: HE IS SLAIN BY HIS SERVANTS, AND SUCCEEDED BY HIS SON AMAZIAH._ _Before Christ 878._... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHOASH DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT, &C.— We refer to the parallel place in Chronicles, for a fuller account of this king and his proceedings after the death of Jehoiada.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN THE MONEY OF EVERY ONE THAT PASSETH THE ACCOUNT— _"Whether of the money of those that pass by, or the money with which every man will redeem his soul; all the money, in fine, which it shall seem good to any one to bring into the house of the Lord."_ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT, THERE WERE NOT MADE FOR THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, &C.— _For not yet were made for the house of the Lord, bowls,_ &c. Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SENT IT TO HAZAEL KING OF SYRIA— It is highly probable, that besides the present of gold, which Jehoash sent to Hazael in order to bribe him to withdraw his army, he had made him a promise of an annual tribute, and that, upon his refusal to pay it, the Syrian army took the field the next year, a... [ Continue Reading ]