2 Kings 12:16-21

16 The 1money from the guilt offerings and 2the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; 3it was for the priests.
17 Then 4Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and 5Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18 6Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and 7his own sacred things and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he went away from Jerusalem.

Joash (Jehoash) Succeeded by Amaziah in Judah

19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Judah?
20 8His servants arose and made a conspiracy and 9struck down Joash at 10the house of Millo as he was going down to Silla.
21 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of 11Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and 12Amaziah his son became king in his place.

2 Kings 12:16-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 12

In this chapter some account is given of the reign of Jehoash, that it was long, and the beginning of it good, during the life of Jehoiada, 2Ki 12:1-3 how urgent he was to have the temple repaired, and what methods were taken for that purpose, 2Ki 12:4-16, how meanly, as well as impiously, he behaved, when the king of Syria was about to come up to Jerusalem and besiege it, 2Ki 12:17,18, and the chapter is closed with an account of his death, and the manner of it, 2Ki 12:19-21.

Cross References 12

  • 1. Leviticus 5:15-18
  • 2. Leviticus 4:24, 29
  • 3. Leviticus 7:7; Numbers 18:19
  • 4. 1 Kings 19:17; 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Kings 10:32, 33
  • 5. 2 Chronicles 24:23, 24
  • 6. 1 Kings 14:26; 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Kings 16:8; 2 Kings 18:15, 16
  • 7. 2 Kings 12:4
  • 8. 2 Chronicles 24:25-27
  • 9. 2 Kings 14:5
  • 10. Judges 9:6; 2 Samuel 5:9; 1 Kings 11:27
  • 11. 2 Chronicles 24:26
  • 12. 2 Kings 14:1
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