2 Chronicles 24:20-22 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:15-26

We have here a sad account of the degeneracy and apostasy of Joash. God had done great things for him; he had done something for God; but now he proved ungrateful to his God and false to the engagements he had laid himself under to him. How has the gold become dim, and the most fine gold changed! Here we find, I. The occasions of his apostasy. When he did that which was right it was not with a perfect heart. He never was sincere, never acted from principle, but in compliance to Jehoiada, who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:20

And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest ,.... The spirit of prophecy, as the Targum; he was moved and influenced by it to speak what is after related: which stood above the people ; in a desk, or sort of pulpit, in which the priests stood when they taught the people, that they might be the better heard, like that which Ezra used, Nehemiah 8:4 . and said unto them, thus saith God ; being moved and directed by his Spirit, he spake in his name: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:21

And they conspired against him ,.... Consulted together to take away his life, and got the order of the king to do it: and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord ; where he had stood and reproved them; this they did before he went out, while in the temple; and if he is the same Zechariah, as some think, our Lord speaks of, he was slain between the temple porch and the altar, Matthew 23:35 ; see Gill on Matthew 23:35 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him ,.... In preserving him in his infancy, and nourishing him; in settling him on the throne, and assisting him with his advice and counsel: but slew his son ; who also assisted at his coronation, and with his father and brethren anointed him king, as is probable, 2 Chronicles 23:11 , and when he died, he said, the Lord look upon it, and requite it ; meaning his blood; this he said, not from a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 24:20

And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah - "When he saw the transgression of the king and of the people, burning incense to an idol in the house of the sanctuary of the Lord, on the day of expiation; and preventing the priests of the Lord from offering the burnt-offerings, sacrifices, daily oblations, and services, as written in the book of the law of Moses; he stood above the people, and said." - Targum. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 24:21

Stoned him - at the commandment of the king - What a most wretched and contemptible man was this, who could imbrue his hands in the blood of a prophet of God, and the son of the man who had saved him from being murdered, and raised him to the throne! Alas, alas! Can even kings forget benefits? But when a man falls from God, the devil enters into him; and then he is capable of every species of cruelty. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 24:22

The Lord look upon it , and require it - And so he did; for, at the end of that year, the Syrians came against Judah, destroyed all the princes of the people, sent their spoils to Damascus; and Joash, the murderer of the prophet, the son of his benefactor, was himself murdered by his own servants. Here was a most signal display of the Divine retribution. On the subject of the death of this prophet the reader is requested to refer to the note on Matthew 23:34 , Matthew... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:1-27

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:1-27

The sad and strange unreliableness of human disposition and life here. One of the strangest of all the sadnesses of human life is the uncertainty and unreliableness of human disposition, which it is so constantly exposing to view. Not only has the fairest promise vanished (like the sun of many a morning) long before the character could be supposed to be firm or even fairly formed, but after the period justly esteemed critical has passed, after fruit has set, and even after some fruit has... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:17-22

The downward career of a king. I. JOASH 'S TEMPTATION . ( 2 Chronicles 24:17 .) 1 . When it came. "After Jehoiada's death,", when the weakling king, having lost his counsellor, was left to the guidance of his own vain heart and foolish understanding. Temptations mostly assail men in their moments of weakness. Eve was probably assaulted in the absence of Adam ( Genesis 3:1 ); David, certainly, in the absence of Nathan ( 2 Samuel 11:2 ); Job, when enfeebled through affliction... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:15-26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 24:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 24:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 24:22

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:1-27

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:1-27

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:17-22

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