2 Kings 12:1

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash^[a] began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

2 Kings 12:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 12:1

In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign
So that he reigned twenty one or twenty two years contemporary with Jehu's reign, for Jehu reigned twenty eight years:

and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem;
the same number of years David and Solomon reigned:

and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba;
a city in the tribe of Simeon, in the extreme part of the land of Canaan southward; her name in the Chaldee dialect is Tabitha, the same with Dorcas in Greek, ( Acts 9:36 ) .

2 Kings 12:1 In-Context

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

2 And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.

4 Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and the money that a man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord,

5 let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered. ”

Footnotes

• [a] 12:1 'Jehoash' is an alternate spelling of 'Joash' (son of Ahaziah) as in 11:2; also verses 2, 4, 6, 7, 18