Verse 2 Chronicles 23:17. _MATTAN THE PRIEST_] The _Targum_ will not prostitute the term _priest_, but calls him כומרא _cumera, priestling_....
4. REFORMATION UNDER JOASH CHAPTER 23 Joash King and Athaliah's Execution _ 1. Joash made king (2 Chronicles 23:1)_ 2. Athaliah slain (2 Chronicles 23:12) 3. Jehoiada and the revival ...
2 CHRONICLES 23, 24. THE REIGN OF JOASH (see notes on 2 Kings 11:4 to 2 Kings 12:21. While the Chronicler bases his narrative, in the main, on the parallel passage in 2 K., he makes changes by means o...
THE HOUSE OF BAAL. All the vessels of the Temple had been removed thither by Jehoram and Athaliah (2 Chronicles 24:7). SLEW MATTAN. According to Deuteronomy 13:9....
_Then all_ R.V. AND ALL. _the house of Baal_ When this was erected is not known, perhaps under Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:6) or Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 22:3), but it was doubtless intended for the worship...
9. THE REIGN OF JOASH (2 Chronicles 23:16-21) TEXT 2 Chronicles 23:16. And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah's people. 17. And al...
REIGN OF JOASH This chapter repeats 2 Kings 11:4, but brings into prominence the ecclesiastical officials in place of the soldiers of the royal guard....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 23 ATHALIAH AND JOASH – 2 CHRONICLES 23:1-21 V1 In the
BRAKE IT DOWN. — _Pulled it down._ AND BRAKE. — _And its altars, &c., they broke in pieces._ Kings adds, “thoroughly.” (See 2 Kings 11:18.)...
וַ יָּבֹ֨אוּ כָל ־הָ עָ֤ם בֵּית ־הַ
JEHORAM, AHAZIAH, AND ATHALIAH: THE CONSEQUENCES OF A FOREIGN MARRIAGE 2 Chronicles 21:1; 2 Chronicles 22:1; 2 Chronicles 23:1 THE accession of Jehoram is one of the instances in which
The story of Jehoida is one of devotion and courage. Doubtless he had known of the hiding place of Joash and his nurse. After six years of terrible experience, he took means to bring about the death o...
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and (l) brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew (m) Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. (l) According to their c...
_Idols. Prot. "images." H. --- Those are wilfully blind who will not distinguish these from the images of Christ and his saints. W._...
There is a beautiful order in the account here given. The first object of reform is to show that God graciously looks upon his people and remembers his covenant. The covenant that is said to be made,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21 THROUGH 26. Finally, the king perishes, according to Elijah's prediction. Disaster upon disaster falls upon Judah in consequence of this connection with th...
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. Ver. 17. _Then all the people._]...
1 Iehoiada hauing set things in order, maketh Ioash king. 12 Athaliah is slaine. 16 Iehoiada restoreth the worship of God. 1 AND [NOTE: 2 Kings 11:4, etc.] in the seuenth yeere Iehoiada strengthened...
THE RIGHT WORSHIP RESTORED...
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, a temple of idolatry erected under the direction of Athaliah somewhere in that neighborhood, AND BRAKE IT DOWN, AND BRAKE HIS ALTARS AND HIS IMAGES IN PI...
JOASH CROWNED KING IN JUDAH (vv.1-11) Athaliah's tyranny was borne with for six years, when finally Jehoiada the priest took the lead in gaining the support of the military leaders in Judah, to pla...
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2 Chronicles 23:17 people H5971 went H935 (H8799) temple H1004 Baal H1168 down H5422 (H8799) pieces H7665
CONTENTS: Joash becomes king of Judah. Execution of Athaliah. Revival through Jehoiada. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoiada, Athaliah, Joash. CONCLUSION: Some who are themselves most guilty are commonly most...
2 Chronicles 23:21. _The people of the land rejoiced._ This revolution, in the hands of so venerable a man as Jehoiada, was effected with the same ease as sailors change at the helm. The people had co...
2 CHRONICLES 23:1 Joash. Joash’s rule marks the restoration of the throne from the usurper, Queen Athaliah, to the rightful Davidic king. It also marks Judah’s return to its covenant commitment to the...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter parallel with 2 Kings 11:4, evidently from same source, although presenting certain points of difference. In Ki. narrative related from civil point of view, in Chronicles...
EXPOSITION This chapter records first those careful preparations of Jehoiada which eventuated in the safe proclaiming of Joash king (2 Chronicles 23:1); then the tragic demonstration and tragic end of...
1 Kings 18:40; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Chronicles 34:7; 2 Kings 10:25;...