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Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. See also: 2 Kings 11:212 Chronicles 24:1-142 Kings 11:1-4Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. See also: 2 Chronicles 24:22 Kings 14:32 Chronicles 25:2However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. See also: 2 Kings 14:41 Kings 15:141 Kings 22:43Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the LORD’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the LORD’s house, See also: 2 Kings 22:4Exodus 30:12-16Exodus 35:5let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.” See also: Isaiah 58:122 Kings 12:122 Kings 22:5-6But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house. See also: Malachi 1:10Isaiah 56:10-121 Samuel 2:29-30Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.” See also: 2 Kings 11:41 Chronicles 21:32 Kings 12:2The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house. But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the LORD’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into the LORD’s house into it. See also: Mark 12:41Jeremiah 35:4Luke 21:1When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in the LORD’s house. See also: 2 Samuel 8:172 Kings 22:122 Kings 19:2They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the LORD’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the LORD’s house, See also: 2 Chronicles 24:11-122 Kings 22:5-62 Chronicles 34:9-11and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. See also: 2 Kings 22:5-6Luke 21:5Ezra 3:7But there were not made for the LORD’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the LORD’s house; See also: 2 Chronicles 24:141 Kings 7:48-50Numbers 10:2for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s house with it. Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. See also: 2 Kings 22:7Luke 16:13 John 1:5The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s house. It was the priests’. See also: Leviticus 7:7Leviticus 5:15-18Leviticus 4:29Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. See also: 2 Chronicles 24:23-24Luke 9:511 Kings 2:39-40Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem. See also: 1 Kings 15:182 Kings 18:15-162 Kings 16:8Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? See also: 1 Kings 14:292 Kings 8:231 Kings 14:19His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. See also: 2 Kings 14:52 Chronicles 24:24-272 Samuel 5:9For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place. See also: 2 Chronicles 24:26-272 Kings 14:1
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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 Kings 12:2
Ver. 2. Taught him. Joiada lived, at least, till the 23d year of the reign of Joas, (v. 6.) and the king seems to have persevered some time longer in virtue.
↑ 22 Kings 12:3
Ver. 3. Places, to the true God, but contrary to his law. The king was deterred from overturning these altars, through human policy; which did not meet with the divine approbation. C. See 3 K.
xxii. 24. Deut. xii. 8.
↑ 32 Kings 12:4
Ver. 4. Sanctified. That is, dedicated to God's service. Ch. --- Lit. "of the holy"
sanctorum. H.
--- For the use of the sanctuary. --- Pass, as strangers, (3 K. viii. 41.) desiring sacrifice to be offered, (Grotius) or who pass in the roll of those who have attained their 20th year, and are obliged to pay half a sicle. Ex. xx. 13. 14. This was the first fund which had been turned to a different purpose by the priests, (C.) under the wicked kings. H. --- Soul. that is, the ordinary oblation, which every soul was to offer by the law. Exod. xxx. Ch. --- Or, this was a second fund arising from the redemption of vows. Lev. xxi. 2. --- Lord. Voluntary contributions, like that of the widow, (Luke xxi. 2.) were also recommended; and Joas sent Levites throughout the land, every year, to collect what they could, for the reparation of the temple. 2 Par. xxiv. 5.
↑ 42 Kings 12:5
Ver. 5. Order. Heb. "acquaintance." Let them receive the contributions on the spot where they reside; or, let those who are on duty in the temple take them.
C. --- Thing. Heb. "breach," badek, a term which the Sept. retain. H.
↑ 52 Kings 12:6
Ver. 6. Temple. It is not known when the king gave his orders; but they were executed with negligence, as they seemed to interfere (C.) with the emoluments assigned by the law to the Levites. 2 Par. xxiv. 5. H. --- The latter Jews were obliged to pay half a sicle towards the repairs of the temple. T.
↑ 62 Kings 12:8
Ver. 8. Forbidden. Heb. Sept. &c. "And the priests consented to take no," &c.
They were also obliged to restore what they had already received. C.
↑ 82 Kings 12:9
Ver. 9. By the altar, yet without the enclosure, that any person might freely put in what he thought proper. 2 Par. xxiv. 8. Priests were still appointed to watch, that no fraud was committed: and they counted the money which the law ordained to be paid. Josephus (Bel. vi. 5.) speaks of many coffers; one might be near the altar, and another out of the door. M.
↑ 92 Kings 12:10
Ver. 10. Priest, or his deputy. Paral. C. --- Out. Prot. "put it up in bags," (H.) or tied and afterwards weighed it.
↑ 102 Kings 12:11
Ver. 11. And they. The king and the high priest conjointly. Paral.
↑ 112 Kings 12:13
Ver. 13. Bowls. Chal. "silver chalices." The precise import of the Heb. term is not well known.
M. --- Lord. After the repairs were finished, the remaining money, which was very considerable, was however employed for these purposes, 2 Par. xxiv. 14.
C. M.
↑ 132 Kings 12:15
Ver. 15. Faithfully, and corresponded with the trust reposed in them. H.
↑ 152 Kings 12:16
Ver. 16. Sins. These terms seem to be synonymous, though they may be distinguished. Lev. iv.
2. and v. 15. If any one forgot to pay tithes, he was bound to make full reparation to the priests; (Tostat.) and the money which was given to them by strangers, to offer sacrifice, was not taken from them. C.
↑ 162 Kings 12:17
Ver. 17. Then. After the death of Joiada, the king gave way to the greatest excesses of idolatry, and even murdered the son of his greatest benefactor.
Hereupon the justice of God fell heavy upon him; Geth was taken, Jerusalem only saved by giving up all the sacred treasures, &c.: yea, the very next year, Hazael returned, routed the forces of Juda, and wounded the king, who on his return to the palace was murdered by conspirators, (C.) to revenge the death of Zacharias. 2 Par.
xxiv. 25. Joseph. ix. 8.
↑ 172 Kings 12:18
Ver. 18. Joram, &c. These are accused of plundering the temple, 2 Par. xxiv. 7.
But they might make some presents, through ostentation. How many rob the poor, while they erect magnificent altars to the God of the poor! C.
↑ 182 Kings 12:20
Ver. 20. Sella. A flight of steps leading to the temple. H. --- The palace was at the bottom of it, and had been built by Solomon. Here Joas was slain in his bed. Paral.
↑ 202 Kings 12:21
Ver. 21. Josachar, or Zabad, the son of Semmaath, an Ammonitess, and Jozabad, the son of Semarith, a Moabitess. Par. Both their mothers were of foreign extraction. C. --- People have frequently two names. --- Somer is the father of Jozabad. M. --- David. Achaz was treated in like manner. The fear of this infamy might tend to keep the kings in awe. After death, the kings of Egypt might be accused, and deprived of sepulture, if their crimes deserved it: as many of them were. Diod. i. p. 46. C. --- Thus Joas was covered with eternal infamy, after he had begun so well. Finis coronat opus. H.
↑ 21License: 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