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Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. See also: 1 Chronicles 3:112 Kings 11:21Joash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest. See also: 2 Chronicles 26:4-52 Chronicles 25:22 Chronicles 24:17-22Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters. See also: Genesis 24:4Genesis 4:19Matthew 19:4-8After this, Joash intended to restore the LORD’s house. He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away. See also: 2 Chronicles 34:8-92 Chronicles 21:22 Chronicles 29:3The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?” See also: Exodus 30:12-16Numbers 1:50Numbers 17:7-8For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of the LORD’s house to the Baals. See also: 2 Chronicles 21:17Hosea 2:132 Chronicles 28:22-24So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the LORD’s house. See also: 2 Kings 12:8-9Mark 12:41They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. See also: 2 Chronicles 24:6Matthew 17:24-27All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it. See also: 2 Corinthians 8:22 Corinthians 9:7Acts 2:45-47Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. See also: 1 Corinthians 16:22 Kings 12:10-12The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the LORD’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the LORD’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair the LORD’s house. See also: 2 Chronicles 34:9-111 Kings 5:15So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it. See also: 1 Chronicles 22:5Mark 13:1-2Nehemiah 4:7When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the LORD’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the LORD’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada. See also: 1 Kings 7:50Proverbs 27:22Numbers 28:2-29But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died. See also: 1 Chronicles 23:1Genesis 15:15Genesis 47:9They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house. See also: Hebrews 6:102 Chronicles 31:20Nehemiah 13:14Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them. See also: Deuteronomy 31:272 Chronicles 22:3-4Daniel 11:32They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness. See also: Joshua 22:20Ephesians 5:62 Chronicles 19:2Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen. See also: Jeremiah 26:5Matthew 13:9Isaiah 51:4The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey the LORD’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.’” See also: Numbers 14:41Jeremiah 5:252 Chronicles 15:1-2They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house. See also: Acts 7:58-59Nehemiah 9:26Matthew 23:34-37Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May the LORD look at it, and repay it.” See also: Genesis 9:5Luke 11:51Revelation 6:9-11At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus. See also: 2 Kings 12:17-182 Chronicles 24:17-18Deuteronomy 32:35For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash. See also: Leviticus 26:82 Chronicles 22:8Leviticus 26:25When they had departed from him (for they left him seriously wounded), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings. See also: 2 Chronicles 24:21-222 Chronicles 28:27Revelation 16:6These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess. See also: 2 Kings 12:21Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place. See also: 2 Kings 12:182 Kings 12:212 Chronicles 13:22
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Chronicles 24:3
Ver. 3. Him. Joas, as Prot. (H.) and most interpreters understand it, with the Syr. &c. Joiada was too old to think of marrying again, as the Rabbins would explain the Heb. conformably to the Sept. and Arab. "himself." C. --- Joas did not probably marry two at once. Salien, A. 3766. ---
Amasias was born of Joadan. C. xxv. 1. M. --- The high priest considered Joas as his son, being married to his aunt. H.
↑ 32 Chronicles 24:5
Ver. 5. Money. The half sicle, (Ex. xxx. 13. 4 K. xii. 4. C.) which at first was required for the tabernacle, and afterwards for the repairs of the temple. W.
↑ 52 Chronicles 24:6
Ver. 6. Chief "priest," (v. 11,) where he is called the first. Heb. "the head priest."
↑ 62 Chronicles 24:7
Ver. 7. Children. All but Ochozias had been slain by the Arabs. The plural is often put for the singular. S. Jerom (Trad.) explains it of the priests of the idols, whom Athalia cherished as her own offspring.
↑ 72 Chronicles 24:10
Ver. 10. That, &c. Heb. "till it was done," according to the law. Pagnin.
↑ 102 Chronicles 24:11
Ver. 11. From day. Lit. "every day," (H.) when the chest was replenished. M.
↑ 112 Chronicles 24:14
Ver. 14. And for. Heb. "and to offer," such as (H.) "mortars." Prov. xxvii. 22. Eali is thus translated. C. --- Prot. "and spoons and vessels."
↑ 142 Chronicles 24:16
Ver. 16. Israel, particularly to those of the kingdom of Juda. H. --- His, David's, house, (M.) as he had restored the crown to his offspring.
↑ 162 Chronicles 24:17
Ver. 17. Worshipped. Heb. "bowed down to the king, and he hearkened to them." H. --- The Jews say that the princes flattered him with the title of god, as he had been educated in the temple. E. --- But this is improbable. C. --- They petitioned for leave to re-establish the worship of Baal, (M.) and paid greater honours to the king than were becoming. D.
↑ 172 Chronicles 24:18
Ver. 18. Idols. Heb. "sorrows." Sept. "the Astartes and idols." C.
↑ 182 Chronicles 24:19
Ver. 19. Them. Calling heaven and earth to witness (C.) the unity of God. H. ---
These prophets might have been performing their sacred commission ever since the reign of Josaphat; during which time Eliseus, Micheas, Jehu, and others, lived. C. xx. 14. and xviii. 27. C.
↑ 192 Chronicles 24:20
Ver. 20. Priest, refers to Zacharias. Sept. "Azarias." H. --- It is not certain whether this was the person whom Jesus Christ speaks, (Mat. xxiii. 35. C.) as S. Jerom believes; (ib.) or our Saviour alludes to one of the minor prophets, (T.) or to the father of the baptist. Baronius. H. --- Sight.
Heb. "above," perhaps on the steps between the two courts. C. --- To make.
Heb. "therefore hath he forsaken you."
↑ 202 Chronicles 24:22
Ver. 22. Require it. I commit my cause into his hands. M. --- The vengeance of the Lord was not slack. H.
Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede pœna claudo. Horace.
↑ 222 Chronicles 24:23
Ver. 23. Damascus. Hazael had before invaded Jerusalem. 4 K. xii. 17. The Syrian army, which routed Juda, was comparatively small. C. --- The idolatrous princes now received the due punishment of their crimes, v. 17.
↑ 232 Chronicles 24:24
Ver. 24. Shameful, is not expressed in Heb. But the putting a king to the torture, (v. 25.) and upbraiding him with his ingratitude and perfidy, was a gread indignity. H. --- He had probably entered into engagements with Hazael, when he prevailed on him to depart, the year before. C.
--- Nabuchodonosor treated Sedecias in like manner. 4 K. xxv. 6. The author of the Heb. Trad.
among the works of S. Jerom, (H.) asserts that the children of Joas were slain before his eyes, while the Syrians reproached him for the unjust murder of Zacharias. C.
↑ 242 Chronicles 24:25
Ver. 25. Servants. By whom the man is slain, who had murdered his spiritual father. W. --- Son.
Heb. "sons." See v. 7. Some think that the brothers of Zacharias were slain, that they might not attempt to revenge his death. --- Kings. These sepulchres are amazingly beautiful and spacious.
The doors are six feet high, and formed, like the rest, of solid stone, cut in the most elegant manner. Doubdan 26. C.
↑ 252 Chronicles 24:26
Ver. 26. Moabitess. Sept. read, "the Ammonite....and Moabite." See 4 K. xii. 21.
H.
↑ 262 Chronicles 24:27
Ver. 27. And. Sept. "And all his sons: for five came upon him," with the rest of the conspirators.
H. --- They have read differently. C. --- Sum. Heb. "the greatness of the burden on him," (H.) imposed by the Syrians, (v. 24) or denounced by the prophets.
Mossa is often taken for a prophetic menace. C. --- More. Heb. "in the researches." Prot. "story of the book." Addo entitled his book Modross. C. xxii.
22. H. --- Only some extracts from these works have come down to us. Esdras had them before him. The abridgments have occasioned their loss, as has been the case with many other excellent works. This was the more easy, as writing was not then so common. C.
↑ 27License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses