INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 11 This chapter relates how that Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, being hid and preserved, when his grandmother murdered all the seed royal, after six years was produced, 2 Kings 11:1, when Jehoiada the priest set a sufficient guard about him, and the king's house, a... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN ATHAIAH THE MOTHER OF AHAZIAH SAW THAT HER SON WAS DEAD,.... Who was the daughter of Ahab, and granddaughter of Omri 2 Kings 8:18, she arose, AND DESTROYED ALL THE SEED ROYAL; that were left, for many had been slain already; the sons of Jehoshaphat, the brothers of Joram, were slain by him... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JEHOSHEBA, THE DAUGHTER OF KING JORAM,.... Not by Athaliah, but another woman; for an high priest, as her husband was, would not have married the daughter of such an idolatrous woman, nor would she have married her to him: SISTER OF AHAZIAH, TOOK JOASH THE SON OF AHAZIAH, AND STOLE HIM FROM AMO... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WAS WITH HER HID IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD SIX YEARS,.... In the temple; not in the holy of holies, as Jarchi, but in a chamber of the priests and Levites, of which there were several in a temple, as Kimchi, and others; and the husband of Jehosheba, being high priest, had one of them for his o... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SEVENTH YEAR JEHOIADA SENT AND FETCHED THE RULERS OVER HUNDREDS, WITH THE CAPTAINS AND THE GUARD,.... This was the husband of Jehosheba, who was high priest, 2 Chronicles 22:11 these RULERS OVER HUNDREDS were not those appointed over the people for civil affairs, as by the advice of Jethro,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE COMMANDED THEM, SAYING, THIS IS THE THING THAT YE SHALL DO,.... These were the rulers over hundreds among the priests and Levites, and which he, as high priest, could command, and whom he could convene without suspicion, being such as he had a connection with, and were unarmed men: and for th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A THIRD PART SHALL BE AT THE GATE OF SUR,.... Generally thought by the Jews to be the eastern gate, so called, as they say, because such as were defiled were bid to depart, or go back, as this word signifies, and not enter the temple; it is called "the gate of the foundation", 2 Chronicles 23:5... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TWO PARTS OF ALL YOU THAT GO FORTH ON THE SABBATH,.... The course that went out of service at the end of the sabbath; these were not suffered, not any of them, to go into the country, but were detained for the present purpose, and divided into two parts: EVEN THEY SHALL KEEP THE WATCH OF THE HO... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE SHALL COMPASS THE KING ROUND ABOUT, EVERY MAN WITH HIS WEAPONS IN HIS HAND,.... Afterwards given them, 2 Kings 11:10, AND HE THAT COMETH WITHIN THE RANGES, LET HIM BE SLAIN; any strange man that was not of them, that came into the ranks in which they were formed, was to be put to death as a... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CAPTAINS OVER THE HUNDREDS DID ACCORDING TO ALL THINGS THAT JEHOIADA THE PRIEST COMMANDED,.... Of whom see 2 Kings 11:4 AND THEY TOOK EVERY MAN HIS MEN; everyone his hundred: THAT WERE TO COME IN ON THE SABBATH, WITH THEM THAT SHOULD GO OUT ON THE SABBATH; both the courses, of which see 2... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO THE CAPTAINS OVER HUNDREDS DID THE PRIEST GIVE KING DAVID'S SPEARS AND SHIELDS, THAT WERE IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD. Such as he had taken in war from his enemies, and had dedicated for the service of the temple, to defend it on occasion, and laid up there; those the priests gave to the captai... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE GUARD STOOD, EVERY MAN WITH HIS WEAPONS IN HIS HAND, ROUND ABOUT THE KING,.... As ordered, 2 Kings 11:8 FROM THE RIGHT CORNER OF THE TEMPLE TO THE LEFT CORNER OF THE TEMPLE from the northeast to the southeast: ALONG BY THE ALTAR AND THE TEMPLE: the altar of burnt offering, which stood in t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE BROUGHT FORTH THE KING'S SON,.... Out of the apartment in the temple where he had been brought up: AND PUT THE CROWN UPON HIM; the crown royal, which seems to have been kept in the temple: AND GAVE HIM THE TESTIMONY; the book of the law, which he was to read in all his days, and according t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN ATHALIAH HEARD THE NOISE OF THE GUARD, AND OF THE PEOPLE,.... Their acclamations and shouts at the coronation of the king; for by this time the people had some knowledge of the affair, and ran, and came flocking to see the new king, and express their joy on this occasion, and whom they grea... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN SHE LOOKED, BEHOLD, THE KING STOOD BY A PILLAR, AS THE MANNER WAS,.... Of kings, when they came into the temple on any occasion, civil or religious, therefore it is called his pillar, 2 Chronicles 23:13, some think this was the brazen scaffold erected by Solomon, 2 Chronicles 6:13, though V... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JEHOIADA THE PRIEST COMMANDED THE CAPTAINS OF THE HUNDREDS, THE OFFICERS OF THE HOST,.... Of the priests and Levites: AND SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE HER FORTH WITHOUT THE RANGES; the ranks of the guards, which were at the gate leading to the palace, or rather "within" them g; the meaning is, that he... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY LAID HANDS ON HER,.... Or rather, "set a place for her'', as the Targum; so Jarchi and Kimchi; made a space, opened a way for her to come out of the temple into their ranks, that she might be there taken and slain, and not in the temple: AND SHE WENT BY THE WAY BY THE WHICH THE HORSES CA... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JEHOIADA MADE A COVENANT BETWEEN THE LORD AND THE KING AND THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY SHOULD BE THE LORD'S PEOPLE,.... Renewed the covenant between the Lord on the one part, and the king and the people on the other; assuring them, that as God had declared that he would be their God, he would yet be t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND,.... That were at Jerusalem, and the parts adjacent, that came from the country, hearing what was done: went into the house of Baal; a temple of his Athaliah had built, either in Jerusalem, or near it; perhaps on the mount of Olives, called the mount of corruption, 2 K... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TOOK THE RULERS OVER HUNDREDS, AND THE CAPTAINS, AND THE GUARD,.... Of which 2 Kings 11:4 and all the people of the land; as many as were assembled together on this occasion: AND THEY BROUGHT DOWN THE KING FROM THE HOUSE OF THE LORD; the temple, which was built on an eminence: AND CAME BY T... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND REJOICED,.... That one of the house of David was set upon the throne, which they might fear was extinct, as it very near was; the lamp of David was almost quenched, only this single life left, from whom a line of kings proceeded, and the King Messiah; the promise of Go... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVEN YEARS OLD WAS JEHOASH WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN. Being a year old when his father was killed and having been hid six years in the temple.... [ Continue Reading ]