2 Chronicles 24:2
in 2 Chronicles 24And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
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ASV
And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
KJV
And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 24
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Jehoiada lived after the accession of Joash at least 23 years 2Ki 12:6. Thus the idolatries of Joash 2Ch 24:18 were confined to his last 10 or 15 years.
This site's exposition
seven years old when
on 2 Chronicles 24:1-3
Joash begins forty years on the throne, the same span Chronicles gives David and Solomon, and the formula that carries his goodness names its own limit in the next breath: he did right all the days of Jehoiada the priest. Chronicles alone records that Jehoiada took two wives for him, a detail Kings does not carry, securing the royal line Athaliah had nearly erased in one generation. The qualifier already warns the reader that this king's righteousness is borrowed, resting on a tutor rather than a settled heart of his own.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2365: “"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
proposed
THERE is a book called The Museum of Natural History and the most amazing animal in that museum is man. It would be far more easy to understand any other creature than to understand a human being. He is worthy of very great study and the more he is studied, the more will he surprise you. There are certain characters that are great curiosities. Alas, there are, also, other characters that are great monstrosities! You can never tell, from what a man is, what he will be. The case before us is a very extraordinary one because here is a man with every possible advantage who, through a number of years, exhibited the brightest form of character. And, yet, in the end, he was not thought worthy to be laid in the sepulchers of his fathers with others of the kings of Judah. Neither was he worthy of any royal interment, for the latter part of his life blackened and defiled the whole of his career and he who began his reign like the dawning of the day, ended it like the middle of the night. I wonder whether there are any persons here who will turn out to be very sinful and wicked before life is over? I mean, those who have begun well, who are now the hope and joy of those who know them, but who will end badly, in dishonor to themselves and grief to their households? If there are such here, probably you can find them out by this one test. Those who say, "It is impossible that it should be so with us," are probably the persons. While those who are afraid lest it should be so and ask for Grace that it may not be so, are probably those who will be preserved and whose path will shine brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. Dear Friends, what need there is to go below the surface in the examination of moral and spiritual character! I shall have to prove this to you, tonight, for in appearance, Joash was all that we could wish.
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2365: “"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
proposed
THERE is a book called The Museum of Natural History and the most amazing animal in that museum is man. It would be far more easy to understand any other creature than to understand a human being. He is worthy of very great study and the more he is studied, the more will he surprise you. There are certain characters that are great curiosities. Alas, there are, also, other characters that are great monstrosities! You can never tell, from what a man is, what he will be.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
all the days of Jehoiada And in II Kings (12:3) it is written: “all his days, [he did] that which Jehoiada the priest instructed him,” but after he died, the officers of the king came to prostrate themselves to him and to deify him (below verse 17).
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֧עַשׂ | vaiyaas | and he did | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| יוֹאָ֛שׁ | yoash | Joash | H3101 → | 47 times |
| הַיָּשָׁ֖ר | haiyashar | the right | H3477 → | 119 times |
| בְּעֵינֵ֣י | beeinei | in [the] eyes of | H5869 → | 887 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| יְמֵ֖י | yemei | [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| יְהוֹיָדָ֥ע | yehoyada' | Jehoiada | H3077 → | 51 times |
| הַכֹּהֵֽן׃ | hakohen | the priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
וַיַּ֧עַשׂand he did
vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times
יוֹאָ֛שׁJoash
yoashH3101 →47 times
הַיָּשָׁ֖רthe right
haiyasharH3477 →119 times
בְּעֵינֵ֣יin [the] eyes of
beeineiH5869 →887 times
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
יְמֵ֖י[the] days of
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
יְהוֹיָדָ֥עJehoiada
yehoyada'H3077 →51 times
הַכֹּהֵֽן׃the priest
hakohenH3548 →750 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 12:2
You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.
- Ezekiel 33:31–33
So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest…
- Mark 7:2–13
and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.
- Matthew 15:2–9
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
- Jeremiah 3:10
Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 12:2
Through
2 Chronicles 25:2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 26:4
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- James 4:8
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- 2 Chronicles 25:14
When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.
- 2 Chronicles 26:4
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2365: “"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.