2 Kings 12:1

Joash (Jehoash) Reigns over Judah

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, ¹Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and 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 became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

2 Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3 Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

4 Then Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the sacred things which is brought into the house of the LORD , in current money, both the money of each man's assessment and all the money which any man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD ,

5 let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever any damage may be found."

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 24:1