3 i. e. It was not employed towards the reparation of the Houſe, becaule, as itfollows, it was the Prieſts 5 it was given them for their private uſe and maintenance- Queſt, If this reaſon was weighty, how could the money of them that paſſed the account, or, the money that every man was ſet at, be thus employed, 'as they were, wv, 4+ for thele alſo may ſeem to have been the Prieſts? Anſw. They were not appropriated to the Prieſts, but, for the ſervice of the tabernacle of the congregation, as is {aid of the former, Exod. 3o. 16- Or, for the Lord, Lev. 27. 2, 9, 14, 23-
17 © Then z Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought againſt Gath a, and took it : and Hazael ſet his
face b to go up to Jeruſalem.
zZ i.e. In this Kings days, when Jehoiada was dead, and Joaſb revolted from God : of which ſee 2 Chron; 24. 17, &c. 4 Once a City of the Philifines, bur taken by David, 1 Chron. 18. 1. and now a part of the Kingdom of Judah. 6 i. e. Direfted his March, and ted his Forces. Or, undertook in good earneſt. So the ſame Phraſe is uſed 2 Chron. 20, 3. Jer- 21. 10. Exzek.35. 2
18 And Jehoaſh king of Judah*rook all the hallowed things c that Jehoſhaphatr, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah his Fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicate, and his own hallowed things, andall the gold :hat was found in the treaſures of the houſe of the LORD, and in the kings houſe, and ſent i# to Hazael kingofSyria,and he + went away from Jeruſalem.
c That neceflity of ſaving his Kingdom and People by this means, which otherwiſe might ſeem to excuſe the fat, was brought upon himſelf by his Apoſtacy from God. See on 1 Kings 15+ 18.
19 T And the reſt of the adts of Joalh, and all that he did, are they nor written in the book of the chroni- cles of the kings of Judah >
20 And his ſervants aroſe, and made a conſpiracy, and ſlew Joaſh d in || the houſe of Millo e, which goeth
down to Silla f.
d Of which ſee 2 Chron: 24:25. e Fither, inthat ſtrong and fa- mous place in Jeruſalem called Mille : of which fee 2 Sam: 5: 9g: 1 Kings 9: 15, 24. and 11 27. into which he poſſibly retired for his ſecurity, being afraid even of his own Subjetts and Servants, Or, in ſome other place called by the ſame name;for ſome reſemblance it had with it. f 1. e. Which ſtandeth upon the deſcent ?o $:Ua, or upon that deſcending cauſeway which leadeth from Mi to the Kings Houſe Some refer this to Joaſh, and render the place thus, They ew him at or near the houſe of Milo, deſcending, or as hc was going down to Sills, to eſcape their hands. |
21 For Jozachargthe ſon of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the ſon of Shomer h, his ſervants, ſmote him, and he died ; and they buried him with his fachers 1n the city of David, and Amaziah his ſon reigned in his ſtead.
g Called alſo Zabad, 2 Chron: 24: 26. t Called Shimrith, 2 Chron: 24: 26, Except Shomer be the fathers name, and Shimrich the Mothers. 3 1-e- In the ſame City, but not in the ſame Royal Sepulchre,
2 Chron; 24. 25. CHAP xD
Fehoahaz King of Iſrael, faloweth the ſin of Jeroboam : is oppreſſed by Hazael ; and relieved by prayer, 1 - 9. Joaſb his ſon ſucceedeth him in the Kingdom, and in his Idolatry, 10 =mm13. Elifha, propheſieth to Joaſb three Vifovies over the Syrians, and dieth: Joaſh's Lamentation, 14 —19. AM year after the Mabites invading the Land, a dead man being caft into Eliſha's Sepulchre, u reſtored to life, 2021. Hazacdl aieth, and Joaſh recovereth the Cities which had been taken from þs Father, 22==25,
N + the three and twentieth year of Joaſh the ſon of Ahaziah king of Judah, Jehoahaz the ſon of Jehu
ſeventeen years, | Z # ich. reigned : which is put for began #o reign, 2 Kings 3:1: and $; 16, 25: and 12: 1.
K ING &
LORD, and + followed the fins of Jeroboam the ſon of Nebat, which made Iſrael ro fin, he departed not therefrom.
afeer. 3 4 And the anger of the LORD was kindled againſt
of Hazael, all :heir days b. |
6 Or rather, a# his days, as it is explained, wv. 22. |
4 And Jehoahaz beſought the LORD, andthe LORD hearkened unto him c : for he ſaw « the oppreſſion of Iſrael e, becauſe the king of Syria oppreſſed them #.
c Nor for his ſake, for God regards not the prayers of the wicked and impenitent, Pſa/. 66. 18. Prov. 1. 28. and 55: 8. bur for other reaſons expreſſed below, wv. 23. 4d i- e. He obſerved it with care and compaſſion. e His choſen and once beloved people. He now helps them, becauſe of his former and ancient kindneſs to them-
f To wit. very grievoully, as it is expreſſed v. 7. So that he helped them not for their own fakes, bur becauſe of the rage of their Enemies, and their Blaſphemies, which doubtleſs accompanicd it. See Dent: 32: 27: Pſal: 12: 4+ EE
5 ( And che LORD gave Iſrael a * favioursg, fo that * 5 they went out from under the hand of the Syrians : and 25: the — ig of Iſrael dwelt in their tents + as before time 5, |
In ; _ . . . . . . a © peace and ſecurity, not only in their ſtrong Cities, but even in
their Tents in the fields. 6 Nevertheleſs, they departed not from the fins of
ked therein : and there Þ+ remained the grove z alſo in waltes. Samaria. ) + Heb.
# Which Ahab had planted for the worſhip of Baal, 1 Kings 16; 32: food. and which ſhould have been deſtroyed, Deur: 7. 5. |
7 Neither did he & leave of the people | to Jehoahaz, but fifry horſemen, and ten chariots, and ten thouſand footmen: for the king of Syria had deſtroyed them, and had made them like the duſt by * chreſhing ». _ & i. e. The King of Syria, -v: 4. with which this Verſe is to be joyned ; wv+ 5: and 6. being put within a Parentheſis, as it isin our Tranſlation, But this verle may he tranſlated otherwiſe, 4/though be ( either the King of Syris, v. 4+ or the Lord, wv, 5. to whom Judg- ments are off aſcribed, even when wicked men are the inſtruments of executing it ) had ns left, &c» And ſo it may be joyned with the next foregoing Verſe, as a great aggravation of their impenitency, and obſtinate continuance in their Idolatry, notwithſtanding ſuch terrible Judgments, which in all reaſon ſhould have driven_them from it. /7.e. Ofhis Army, or Men of War, as the following words evVIince. - 9 7.e. Had broken and ground them to duſt, or powder, as the Corn is many times broken by Threſhing. |