2 Chronicles 24:14
Ver. 14. And when they had finished it,.... The repairs of the house, all that were necessary:
they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada: that is, the overseers, when they had paid the workmen, brought what was left of the money collected to the king and the priest, to dispose of as they should think fit:
whereof were made vessels for the house of the Lord; in the room of such that Athaliah and her sons had taken away, and converted to the use of Baal; for though it is said, 2Ki 12:13, that none were made of this money, the meaning is, that none were made of it until the work was finished, and the workmen paid:
even vessels to minister and offer withal; which, according to Jarchi, were pestles and mortars to beat spices with; but Kimchi thinks they were small vessels with which they drew wine out of the bin for drink offerings: and spoons and vessels of gold and silver: see 2Ki 12:13,and they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada; the daily sacrifice, morning and evening. 2 Chronicles 24:15Ver. 15. But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died,.... A very old man; few at this time arrived to such an age; he was a rare instance:One hundred and thirty years old was he when he died; the oldest man we read of from the times of Moses, and older than he by ten years. 2 Chronicles 24:16Ver. 16. And they buried him in the city of David among the kings,.... In honour to him, he having been the preserver of the king, and of the kingdom, and being by marriage a relation of the present king, uncle to him:because he had done good in Israel; in that part of it which belonged to the kingdom of the house of David:both towards God, and towards his house; both for the restoring the pure worship of God, and the repairs of the temple. 2 Chronicles 24:17Ver. 17. Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah,.... Who had been secretly inclined to idolatry, but durst not discover it during the life of Jehoiada; whose influence at court was too great for them to counterwork, but when dead they came to court:and made obeisance to the king; bowed in a very lowly manner, fawned upon him, and flattered him. Some Jewish writers, as Kimchi observes, understand this of religious adoration, that they made a god of him, and worshipped him, pretending, as a foundation for it, his being hid six months in the temple, and preserved; but it designs no more than civil worship and homage:then the king hearkened unto them; coursing with him about divine worship, which the business they came about; desiring that they might, not be obliged to come to Jerusalem to worship, but might make use of the high places, and by that means worship what idol they pleased, which he granted to them; the Targum is,"he received their idols from them.'' 2 Chronicles 24:18Ver. 18. And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers,.... Came no more to the temple at Jerusalem, forsook the worship and service of it:and served groves and idols; worshipped idols in groves, which were upon high places:and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass: their idolatry, and particularly on these princes, the Syrian army coming against them, and destroying them, 2Ch 24:23. 2 Chronicles 24:19Ver. 19. Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord,.... To reprove them for their sin, to warn them of their danger, to exhort them to their duty, and endeavour to restore them, and reduce them to the obedience and worship, of God; such was his clemency, goodness, and condescension to them, before he executed his wrath upon them:and they testified against them; against their sins, and declared what would befall them, and called heaven and earth to witness for God and against them:but they would not give ear: to their reproofs, admonitions, cautions, and exhortations, but went on in their own ways. 2 Chronicles 24:20Ver. 20. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest,.... The spirit of prophecy, as the Targum; he was moved and influenced by it to speak what is after related:which stood above the people; in a desk, or sort of pulpit, in which the priests stood when they taught the people, that they might be the better heard, like that which Ezra used, Ne 8:4and said unto them, thus saith God; being moved and directed by his Spirit, he spake in his name:why transgress ye the command of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? by committing idolatry, than which nothing could more hinder prosperity, both in things spiritual and temporal, in soul and body:because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you; because they had forsaken the worship of God, as the Targum, God had forsaken them, and was about to give them up into the hand of their enemies. 2 Chronicles 24:21Ver. 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, Mt 23:35,See Gill on "Mt 23:35". 2 Chronicles 24:22Ver. 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, 2Ch 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 private spirit of revenge, but with a view to the glory of divine justice, and which he delivered not as a wish, or by way of imprecation, that so it might be, but as a prophecy that so it would be. 2 Chronicles 24:23Ver. 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 2Ki 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 not being able to stop them:and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people; the idolatrous princes of Judah, 2Ch 24:17, which is very remarkable that they should be distinguished from the people in their destruction, who had been the chief cause of the wrath of God coming upon them:and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus; all the riches that were taken from them were sent to the king of Syria at Damascus; this looks as if Hazael was not with this army. 2 Chronicles 24:24Ver. 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 idolatry and murder. 2 Chronicles 24:25Ver. 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 the house of Millo, where he lay ill of his wounds, and sick of his diseases, and could not defend himself:and he died: of the wounds his servants gave him:and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings; see 2Ki 12:21. 2 Chronicles 24:26Ver. 26. And these are they that conspired against him, Zabad the son of Shimeah an Ammonitess,.... Called Jozachar, the son of Shimeah, 2Ki 12:21,and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess; called in the same place the son of Shomer. 2 Chronicles 24:27Ver. 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, 2Ch 24:6, where the word used signifies a burden; and it follows,and the repairing of the house of the Lord; the whole history of that:behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings; not in the canonical book so called, but in the history, commentaries, or annals of the kings of Judah now lost:and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead; see 2Ki 12:21.
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