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21 Then all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet 1after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword. 24 Joash repaireth the house of the Lord. 17 After the death of Jehoiada he falleth to idolatry. 21 He stoneth to death Zechariah the Prophet. 25 Joash is killed of his own servants. 27 After him reigneth Amaziah.
11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown and gave him the 1testimony, and made him King. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king. 12 ¶ But when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the King, she came to the people into the house of the Lord. 13 And when she 1looked, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the King, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew the trumpets, and the singers were with instruments of music, and they that could sing praise: then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, 2Treason, treason. 14 Then Jehoiada the Priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were governors of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges, and he that 1followeth her, let him die by the sword: for the Priest had said, Slay her not in the house of the Lord. 15 So they laid hands on her: and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there. 16 ¶ And Jehoiada made a 1covenant between him and all the people, and the king, that they would be the Lord's people. 17 And all the people went to the house of Baal, and 1destroyed, and brake his altars and his images, and slew 2Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 18 And Jehoiada appointed officers for the house of the Lord, under the 1hands of the Priests and Levites, whom David had distributed for the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord, das it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and singing by the appointment of David. 19 And he set porters by the gates of the house of the Lord, that none that was unclean in anything, should enter in. 20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the noble men, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and he caused the king to come down out of the house of the Lord, and they went through the 1high gate of the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
d Num. 28:3
chapter 24
a 2 Kings 12:1
b Exod. 30:13
c 2 Kings 12:9
d Exod. 30:13
1 Joash awas seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2 And Joash did uprightly in the sight of the Lord all the days of 1Jehoiada the Priest. 3 And Jehoiada 1took him two wives, and he begat sons and daughters. 4 ¶ And afterward it came into Joash's mind to renew the house of the Lord. 5 And he assembled the Priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all 1Israel money to repair the house of your God, from year to year, and haste the thing, but the Levites hasted not. 6 Therefore the king called Jehoiada the 1chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and Jerusalem bthe tax of Moses the servant of the Lord, and of the Congregation of Israel, for the Tabernacle of the testimony? 7 For 1wicked Athaliah, and her children brake up the house of God: and all the things that were dedicated for the house of the Lord, did they bestow upon Baal. 8 Therefore the king commanded, cand they made a chest, and set it at the gate of the house of the Lord without. 9 And they made proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring unto the Lord dthe tax of Moses the servant of God, laid upon Israel in the wilderness. 10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had finished. 11 And when it was time, 1they brought the chest
23:11 1 That is, the book of the Law, or as some read, they put upon him his royal apparel. 23:13 1 Or, saw the king standing. 2 Declaring her vile impudence, which having unjustly and by murder usurped the crown, would still have defeated the true pos sessor, and therefore called true obedience treason. 23:14 1 To join with her party, and to maintain her authority. 23:16 1 That they would only serve him and renounce all idolatry. 23:17 1 According to their covenant made to the Lord. 2 As the Lord commanded in his Law both for the person and also the city, Deut. 13:9 and 15. 23:18 1 Or, charge. 23:20 1 Which was the principal gate, that the King might be seen
of all the people. 23:21 1 For where a tyrant and an idolater reigneth, there can be no quietness for the plagues of God are ever among such people. 24:2 1 Who was a faithful counselor, and governed him by the word of God. 24:3 1 Or, gave him two wives. 24:5 1 He meaneth not the ten tribes, but only the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin. 24:6 1 For he was the high Priest. 24:7 1 The Scriptures doth term her thus, because she was a cruel murderer, and a blasphemous idolatress. 24:11 1 Such as were faithful men, whom the king had appointed for that matter.
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unto the King's officer by the hand of the Levites: and when they saw that there was much silver, then the King's Scribe (and one appointed by the high Priest) came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again: thus they did day by day, and gathered silver in abundance. 12 And the King and 1Jehoiada gave it to such as did the labor and work in the house of the Lord, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord: they gave it also to workers of iron and brass, to repair the house of the Lord. 13 So the workmen wrought, and the work 1amended through their hands: and they restored the house of God to his state, and strengthened it. 14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the silver before the king and Jehoiada, and he made thereof 1vessels for the house of the Lord, even vessels to minister, both mortars and incense cups, and vessels of gold, and of silver: and they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada. 15 ¶ But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days, and died. An hundred and thirty years old was he when he died. 16 And they buried him in the city of David with the 1kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house. 17 ¶ And after the death of Jehoiada, came the 1princes of Judah, and did reverence to the king, and the king hearkened unto them. 18 And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem, because of this their trespass. 19 And God sent Prophets among them, to bring them again unto the Lord: and they 1made protestation among them, but they would not hear. 20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the Priest, which stood 1above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God,
Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord? surely ye shall not prosper: because ye have forsaken the Lord, he also hath forsaken you. 21 Then they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the 1commandment of the king, in the court of the house of the Lord. 22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord 1look upon it and require it. 23 ¶ And when the year was out, the host of Aram came up against him, and they came against Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus. 24 Though the army of Aram came with a small company of men, yet the Lord delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers: and they 1gave sentence against Joash. 25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the 1children of Jehoiada the Priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died, and they buried him in the city of David: but they buried him not in the sepulchers of the kings. 26 And these are they that conspired against him, Zabad the son of Shimrath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess. 27 But 1his sons, and the sum of the tax gathered by him, and the 2foundation of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. 25 Amaziah putteth him to death which slew his father. 10 He sendeth back them of Israel. 11 He overcometh the Edomites. 14 He falleth to idolatry. 17 And Joash king of Israel overcometh Amaziah. 27 He is slain by a conspiracy.
1 Amaziah was five and twenty years old when he
24:12 1 Signifying that this thing was done by advice and counsel, and not by any one man's affection. 24:13 1 Hebrew, a medicine was upon the work, meaning it was repaired. 24:14 1 For the wicked kings his predecessors, and Athaliah had destroyed the vessels of the Temple, or turned them to the use of their idols. 24:16 1 Signifying that they could not honor him too much, who had so excellently served in the work of the Lord, and in the affairs of the commonwealth. 24:17 1 Which were flatterers, and knew now that the king was destitute of him who did watch over him as a father, and therefore brought him to most vile idolatry. 24:19 1 They took heaven and earth and all creatures to witness, that except they returned to the Lord, he would most grievously punish their infidelity and rebellion, Neh. 9:26.
24:20 1 In a place above the people, to the intent that he might be heard. 24:21 1 There is no rage so cruel and beastly as of them whose hearts God hath hardened, and which delight more in superstition and idolatry than in the true service of God and pure simplicity of his word. 24:22 1 Revenge my death and require my blood at your hands: or he speaketh this by prophecy, because he knew that God would do it. This Zechariah is also called the son of Berechiah, Matt. 23:35, because his progenitors were Iddo, Berechiah, Jehoiada, etc. 24:24 1 That is, reproved and checked him, and handled him rigor ously. 24:25 1 Meaning, Zechariah, which was one of Jehoiada's sons, and a Prophet of the Lord. 24:27 1 That is, concerning his sons, etc. 2 That is, the reparation.
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began to reign, and he reigned nine and twenty years in aJerusalem, and his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 And he did 1uprightly in the eyes of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart. 3 And when the kingdom was established unto him, he slew his servants, that had slain the king his father. 4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the Law, and in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, bThe fathers shall not die for the 1children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin. 5 ¶ And Amaziah assembled Judah, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from 1twenty years old and above, and found among them three hundred thousand chosen men, to go forth to the war, and to handle spear and shield. 6 He hired also an hundred thousand valiant men 1out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver. 7 But a man of God came to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee: for the Lord is not 1with Israel, neither with all the house of Ephraim. 8 If 1not, go thou on, do it, make thyself strong to the battle, but God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down. 9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, What shall we do then for the hundred talents, which I have given to the host of Israel? Then the man of God answered, The Lord is able to 1give thee more than this. 10 So Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to return to their place: wherefore their wrath was kindled greatly against Judah, and they returned to their places with great anger.
11 Then Amaziah was encouraged, and led forth his people, and went to the salt valley, and smote of the children of 1Seir, ten thousand. 12 And other ten thousand did the children of Judah take alive, and carried them to the top of a 1rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, and they all burst to pieces. 13 But the men of the 1army, which Amaziah sent away, that they should not go with his people to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah from Samaria unto Beth Horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil. 14 Now after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and 1worshipped them, and burned incense unto them. 15 Wherefore the Lord was wroth with Amaziah, and sent unto him a Prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought the gods of the people, which were not able to 1deliver their own people out of thine hand? 16 And as he talked with him, 1he said unto him, Have they made thee the King's counselor? cease thou: why should they 2smite thee? And the Prophet ceased, but said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not obeyed my counsel. 17 ¶ Then Amaziah King of Judah took counsel, and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, Come, 1let us see one another in the face. 18 But Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that is in Lebanon, sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, cGive thy daughter to my son to wife: and the wild beast that was in Lebanon went and trode down the thistle. 19 Thou thinkest: lo, thou hast smitten Edom, and thine heart lifteth thee up to brag: abide now at home: why dost thou provoke to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, and Judah with thee?
chapter 25
a 2 Kings 14:2
b Deut. 24:16
2 Kings 14:6 Jer. 31:30 Ezek. 18:10
c 2 Kings 14:9
25:2 1 Meaning, in respect of his predecessors albeit he had his imperfections. 25:4 1 That is, for that fault wherefore the child is punished, except he be culpable of the same. 25:5 1 So many as were able men to bear weapons and go to the war. 25:6 1 That is, out of the ten tribes, which had separated themselves before, both from God and their true king. 25:7 1 And therefore to think to have help of them, whom the Lord favoreth not, is to cast off the help of the Lord. 25:8 1 If thou wilt not give credit to my words. 25:9 1 He showeth that if we depend only upon God, we shall not need to be troubled with these worldly respects, for he will give at all times that which shall be necessary, if we obey his word. 25:11 1 For the Idumeans whom David had brought to subjection, rebelled under Jehoram Jehoshaphat's son.
25:12 1 In 2 Kings 14:7, this rock is called the city Sela. 25:13 1 That is, the hundred thousand of Israel. 25:14 1 Thus where he should have given the praise to God for his bene fits and great victory, he fell from God, and did most vilely dishonor him. 25:15 1 He proveth that whatsoever cannot save himself nor his worshippers, is no God but an idol. 25:16 1 Meaning, the King. 2 So hard it is, for the carnal man to be admonished of his fault, that he contemneth, mocketh, and threateneth him that warneth him: yea, imprisoneth him and putteth him to death, 2 Chron. 16:10 and 18:26 and 24:21. 25:17 1 That is, let us try the matter hand to hand: for he was offended, that the army of the Israelites, whom he had in wages, and dismissed by the counsel of the Prophet, had destroyed certain of the cities of Judah.
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20 But Amaziah would not hear: for 1it was of God, that he might deliver them into his hand, because they had sought the gods of Edom. 21 So Joash the king of Israel went up: and he and Amaziah king of Judah saw one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which is in Judah. 22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tents. 23 But Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, in Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits. 24 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with
and his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem. 4 And he did uprightly in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did. 5 And he sought God in the days of 1Zechariah (which understood the visions of God) and when as 2he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. 6 For he went forth and fought against the Philistines and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod, and among the Philistines. 7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur Baal and Hammeunim. 8 And the Ammonites gave 1gifts to Uzziah, and his name spread to the entering in of Egypt: for he did most valiantly. 9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the c,1turning, and made them strong. 10 And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many 1cisterns: for he had much cattle both in the valleys and plains, plowmen, and dressers of vines in the mountains, and in 2Carmel: for he loved husbandry. 11 Uzziah also had an host of fighting men that went out to war by bands, according to the count of their number under the hand of Jeiel the Scribe, and Maaseiah the ruler, and under the hand of Hananiah, one of the King's captains. 12 The whole 1number of the chief of the families of the valiant men were two thousand and six hundred. 13 And under their hand was the army for war, three hundred and seven thousand, and five hundred that fought valiantly to help the King against the enemy. 14 And Uzziah prepared them throughout all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and brigandines, and bows, and stones to sling. 15 He made also very 1artificial engines in Jerusalem, to be upon the towers and upon the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones: and his name spread far abroad, because God did help him marvelously till he was mighty.
d 2 Kings 14:19
chapter 26
a 2 Kings 14:21
b 1 Kings 15:2
c Neh. 3:19,24
1Obed Edom, and in the treasures of the king's house, and the children that were in hostage, and returned to Samaria. 25 ¶ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, fifteen years. 26 Concerning the rest of the acts of Amaziah first and last, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? 27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from the Lord, dthey wrought treason against him in Jerusalem: and when he was fled to Lachish, they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there. 28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah. 26 1, 5 Uzziah obeying the Lord, prospereth in his enterprises. 16 He waxeth proud and usurpeth the Priests' office. 19 The Lord plagueth him. 20 The Priests drive him out of the Temple, and exclude him out of the Lord's house. 23 His burial, and his successor.
1 Then all the apeople of Judah took 1Uzziah which was sixteen years old, and made him king in the stead of his father Amaziah. 2 He built 1Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 3 bSixteen years old was Uzziah, when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem,
25:20 1 Thus God oft times plagueth by those means wherein men most trust, to teach them to have their recourse only to him, and to show his judgments, moveth their hearts to follow that which shall be their destruction. 25:24 1 Meaning, the successors of Obed Edom: for the house bare the name of the chief father. 26:1 1 Called also Azariah. 26:2 1 He fortified it and made it strong: this city was also called Elath and Elanon near to the red Sea. 26:5 1 This was not that Zechariah that was the son of Jehoiada, but some other Prophet of that name.
2 For God never forsakes any that seeketh unto him, and therefore man is the cause of his own destruction. 26:8 1 That is, they paid tribute in sign of subjection. 26:9 1 Whereas the wall or tower turneth. 26:10 1 Or, pits. 2 That is, in mount Carmel, or as the word signifieth in the fruit ful field: it is also taken for a green ear of corn, when it is full, as Lev. 2:14. 26:12 1 Of the chief officers of the king's house, or of the captains and sergeants for war. 26:15 1 Hebrew, engines by the invention of an inventive man.