2 Chronicles 24 - Introduction
_JOASH REIGNS WELL ALL THE DAYS OF JEHOIADA; WHO BEING DEAD, HE FALLS INTO IDOLATRY, AND IS SLAIN BY HIS SERVANTS._ _Before Christ 840._... [ Continue Reading ]
_JOASH REIGNS WELL ALL THE DAYS OF JEHOIADA; WHO BEING DEAD, HE FALLS INTO IDOLATRY, AND IS SLAIN BY HIS SERVANTS._ _Before Christ 840._... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE SONS OF ATHALIAH, &C.— _For Athaliah had enticed her sons to wickedness, and they had broken open the house of the Lord, and all,_ &c. Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD LOOK UPON IT, AND REQUIRE IT— _The Lord will look upon it, and require it._ Houbigant. This prophetic sentence was no sooner pronounced than executed; for, before the year was expired, the Syrians came up against Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people, and Joash himself was... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS OWN SERVANTS CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM— These two murderers, whose fathers were Jews, but their mothers aliens, (see the next verse,) were perhaps of the king's bed-chamber, and, having constant access to him, might more easily accomplish their design. However, he was so weak and feeble that he coul... [ Continue Reading ]