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Matthew Henry

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 24:21

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:23

And it came to pass at the end of the year ,.... After the death of Zechariah; so soon had his prophecy its accomplishment: that the host of Syria came up against him ; against Joash, king of Judah, under Hazael king of Syria, or however sent by him; for some think this is a different expedition from that in 2 Kings 12:17 though others take it to be the same: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem ; not only came into the land of Judah, but as far as Jerusalem, the forces of Joash... read more

John Gill

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

For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men ,.... It consisted but of few: and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand ; which the king of Judah and his princes had got together to oppose them: because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers ; therefore the Lord forsook them, and gave them up into the hand of their enemies: so they executed judgment against Joash ; were the instruments God made use of to execute his vengeance on him for his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:25

And when they were departed from him ,.... Having got what wealth and spoil they could: for they left him in great diseases ; through the wounds they gave him, and the distress they brought him into: his own servants conspired against him, for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest ; for perhaps more than one was slain at the same time; the rest vindicating the cause of their brother, shared the same fate; or the plural is put for the singular: and slew him on his bed ; in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:26

And these are they that conspired against him, Zabad the son of Shimeah an Ammonitess ,.... Called Jozachar, the son of Shimeah, 2 Kings 12:21 , and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess ; called in the same place the son of Shomer. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:27

Now concerning his sons ,.... The sons of Joash; how many they were, and what their names: and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him ; which some understand of the hard and heavy prophecies of the Lord against him; and others of the heavy taxes and tribute imposed on him by the king of Syria; and others of the collection for the repairs of the temple, 2 Chronicles 24:6 , where the word used signifies a burden; and it follows: and the repairing of the house of the Lord ; the... 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

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