2 Kings 12:19-21

Here is but little account of Jehoash. How very different was the close of his life, to the promising appearance of it when crowned king. The Reader cannot but have remarked how his name is altered in the several parts of his history. His name was Joash originally. But at the coronation, and in the beginning of his reign he is called Jehoash. And in the close again it is, Joash. Perhaps the very honorable distinction prefixed to Joash, of the Je, was intended as a mark of the Lord's favor. And as the termination of his life was dishonorable, particularly so in his conduct towards a prophet of the Lord, in the person of a son of his benefactor, Jehoiada; (see 2 Chronicles 24:17.) this prefixed honor to his name was taken from him. We have a similar instance; Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 22:28.