2 Chronicles 24:1
_JOASH WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED FORTY YEARS IN JERUSALEM. HIS MOTHER'S NAME ALSO WAS ZIBIAH OF BEERSHEBA._ Joash ... began to reign - (see the notes at 2 Kings 12:1.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_JOASH WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED FORTY YEARS IN JERUSALEM. HIS MOTHER'S NAME ALSO WAS ZIBIAH OF BEERSHEBA._ Joash ... began to reign - (see the notes at 2 Kings 12:1.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOASH DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF JEHOIADA THE PRIEST._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JEHOIADA TOOK FOR HIM TWO WIVES; AND HE BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS._ Jehoiada took for him two wives, х_ LOW_ (H3807a)] - for him or for himself. If the reference is to Jehoiada himself, the rabbis may be right in maintaining that he married this second wife on the death of the first, because th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT JOASH WAS MINDED TO REPAIR THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord. (See the notes at 2 Kings 12:4.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE GATHERED TOGETHER THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, AND SAID TO THEM, GO OUT UNTO THE CITIES OF JUDAH,_ _ AND GATHER OF ALL ISRAEL MONEY TO REPAIR THE HOUSE OF YOUR GOD FROM YEAR TO YEAR, AND SEE THAT YE HASTEN THE MATTER. HOWBEIT THE LEVITES HASTENED IT NOT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE SONS OF ATHALIAH, THAT WICKED WOMAN, HAD BROKEN UP THE HOUSE OF GOD; AND ALSO ALL THE DEDICATED THINGS OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD DID THEY BESTOW UPON BAALIM._ For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God, х_ HAMIRSHA`AT _ (H4849)] - wickedness (concrete) for t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AT THE KING'S COMMANDMENT THEY MADE A CHEST, AND SET IT WITHOUT AT THE GATE OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JEHOIADA WAXED OLD, AND WAS FULL OF DAYS WHEN HE DIED; AN HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS OLD WAS HE WHEN HE DIED._ Jehoiada waxed old, and ... died. His life, protracted to unusual longevity, and spent in the service of his country, deserved some tribute of public gratitude, and this was rendered in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY BURIED HIM IN THE CITY OF DAVID AMONG THE KINGS, BECAUSE HE HAD DONE GOOD IN ISRAEL, BOTH TOWARD GOD, AND TOWARD HIS HOUSE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW AFTER THE DEATH OF JEHOIADA CAME THE PRINCES OF JUDAH, AND MADE OBEISANCE TO THE KING. THEN THE KING HEARKENED UNTO THEM._ Now ... came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Hitherto, while Joash occupied the throne, his uncle had held the reins of sovereign power, and by his e... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY LEFT THE HOUSE OF THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS, AND SERVED GROVES AND IDOLS: AND WRATH CAME_ _ UPON JUDAH AND JERUSALEM FOR THIS THEIR TRESPASS._ Wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem. The particular mention of Jerusalem as involved in the sin, implies that the neglect of the temple and th... [ Continue Reading ]
_YET HE SENT PROPHETS TO THEM, TO BRING THEM AGAIN UNTO THE LORD; AND THEY TESTIFIED AGAINST THEM: BUT THEY WOULD NOT GIVE EAR._ Yet he sent prophets - Elisha, Micah, Jehu son of Hanani, Jahaziel son of Zechariah (2 Chronicles 20:14), Eliezer son of Dodavah (2 Chronicles 20:37), lived and taught at... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON ZECHARIAH THE SON OF JEHOIADA THE PRIEST, WHICH STOOD ABOVE THE PEOPLE, AND SAID UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH GOD, WHY TRANSGRESS YE THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD, THAT YE CANNOT PROSPER? BECAUSE YE HAVE FORSAKEN THE LORD, HE HATH ALSO FORSAKEN YOU._ The Spirit of God came... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM, AND STONED HIM WITH STONES AT THE COMMANDMENT OF THE KING IN THE COURT OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS JOASH THE KING REMEMBERED NOT THE KINDNESS WHICH JEHOIADA HIS FATHER HAD DONE TO HIM, BUT SLEW HIS SON. AND WHEN HE DIED, HE SAID, THE LORD LOOK UPON IT, AND REQUIRE IT._ When he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it. These dying words, if they implied a vindictive imprecation,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF THE YEAR, THAT THE HOST OF SYRIA CAME UP AGAINST HIM: AND THEY CAME TO JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, AND DESTROYED ALL THE PRINCES OF THE PEOPLE FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE, AND SENT ALL THE SPOIL OF THEM UNTO THE KING OF DAMASCUS._ At the end of the year ... the lost of Syria c... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE ARMY OF THE SYRIANS CAME WITH A SMALL COMPANY OF MEN, AND THE LORD DELIVERED A VERY GREAT HOST INTO THEIR HAND, BECAUSE THEY HAD FORSAKEN THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS. SO THEY EXECUTED JUDGMENT AGAINST JOASH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THEY WERE DEPARTED FROM HIM, (FOR THEY LEFT HIM IN GREAT DISEASES,) HIS OWN SERVANTS CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM FOR THE BLOOD OF THE SONS OF JEHOIADA THE PRIEST, AND SLEW HIM ON HIS BED, AND HE DIED: AND THEY BURIED HIM IN THE CITY OF DAVID, BUT THEY BURIED HIM NOT IN THE SEPULCHRES OF THE KING... [ Continue Reading ]