geneva - 2Kings:11-13

geneva@2Kings:11:1 @ And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the (note:)Meaning, all the posterity of Jehoshaphat, to whom the kingdom belonged: thus God used the cruelty of this woman to destroy the family of Ahab.(:note) seed royal.

geneva@2Kings:11:2 @ But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, (note:)The Lord promised to maintain the family of David, and not to quench the light of it, therefore he moved the heart of Jehosheba to preserve him.(:note) took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons [which were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in Where the priests slept. the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

geneva@2Kings:11:3 @ And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord sixe yeere: and Athaliah did reigne ouer the land.

geneva@2Kings:11:4 @ And the seventh year (note:)The chief priest, Jehosheba's husband.(:note) Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.

geneva@2Kings:11:5 @ And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of (note:)Of the Levites, who had charge of the keeping of the temple, and kept watch by course.(:note) you that enter in on the sabbath shall That no one should come on them, while they were crowning the king. even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

geneva@2Kings:11:6 @ And a third part [shall be] at the gate of (note:)Called the east gate of the temple, (2Ch_23:5).(:note) Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.

geneva@2Kings:11:7 @ And two parts of all you that (note:)Whose charge is ended.(:note) go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.

geneva@2Kings:11:8 @ And ye shal compasse the King rounde about, euery man with his weapon in his hande, and whosoeuer commeth within the ranges, let him be slayne: be you with the King, as he goeth out and in.

geneva@2Kings:11:9 @ And the captains over the hundreds did according to all [things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the (note:)Read (2Ki_11:5, 2Ki_11:7).(:note) sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

geneva@2Kings:11:10 @ And to the captains over hundreds did the (note:)That is, Jehoiada.(:note) priest give king David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:11:11 @ And the garde stoode, euery man with his weapon in his hande, from the right side of the house to the left side, about the altar and about the house, round about the King.

geneva@2Kings:11:12 @ And he brought forth (note:)That is, Joash, who had been kept secret six years.(:note) the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and [gave him] Meaning, the law of God, which is his chief charge, and by which only his throne is established. the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.

geneva@2Kings:11:13 @ And when Athaliah heard the noyse of the running of the people, shee came in to the people in the house of the Lord.

geneva@2Kings:11:14 @ And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a (note:)Where the king's place was in the temple.(:note) pillar, as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.

geneva@2Kings:11:15 @ But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that (note:)To take her part.(:note) followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:11:16 @ Then they laid hands on her, and she went by the way, by the which the horses goe to the house of the King, and there was she slaine.

geneva@2Kings:11:17 @ And Jehoiada made a (note:)That both the king and the people should maintain the true worship of God and destroy all idolatry.(:note) covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the That he should govern and they obey in the fear of God. king also and the people.

geneva@2Kings:11:18 @ And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the (note:)Even in the place where he had blasphemed God, and thought to have been helped by his idol, there God poured his vengeance on him.(:note) altars. And the That is, Jehoiada. priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:11:19 @ Then he tooke the captaines of hudreths, and the other captaines, and the garde, and all the people of the lande: and they brought the King from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the garde to the Kings house: and he sate him downe on the throne of the Kings.

geneva@2Kings:11:20 @ And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: (note:)Who by his cruelty and persecution had troubled the whole land.(:note) and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house.

geneva@2Kings:11:21 @ Seuen yeere olde was Iehoash when he began to reigne.

geneva@2Kings:12:1 @ In the seuenth yere of Iehu Iehoash began to reigne, & reigned fourty yeres in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

geneva@2Kings:12:2 @ And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein (note:)As long as rulers give ear to the true ministers of God, they prosper.(:note) Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

geneva@2Kings:12:3 @ But (note:)So hard a thing it is for them, that are in authority, to be brought to the perfect obedience of God.(:note) the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

geneva@2Kings:12:4 @ And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the (note:)That is, the money of redemption (Exo_30:12), also the money which the priest valued the vows at (Lev_27:2), and their free gift.(:note) account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

geneva@2Kings:12:5 @ Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the (note:)For the temple which was built a hundred and fifty-five years before, had many things decayed in it, both by the negligence of the king's predecessors, and also by the wickedness of the idolaters.(:note) breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

geneva@2Kings:12:6 @ Yet in the three and twentieth yeere of King Iehoash the Priestes had not mended that which was decayed in the Temple.

geneva@2Kings:12:7 @ Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore (note:)He takes from them the ordering of the money, because of their negligence.(:note) receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

geneva@2Kings:12:8 @ So the Priestes consented to receiue no more money of the people, neither to repaire the decayed places of the Temple.

geneva@2Kings:12:9 @ But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the (note:)That is, on the south side.(:note) right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:12:10 @ And when they sawe there was much money in the chest, the Kinges Secretarie came vp and the hie Priest, and put it vp after that they had tolde the money that was found in the house of the Lord,

geneva@2Kings:12:11 @ And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them (note:)For the king had appointed others who were fit for that purpose, (2Ki_22:5).(:note) that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

geneva@2Kings:12:12 @ And to the masons and hewers of stone, and to bye timber and hewed stone, to repayre that was decayed in the house of the Lorde, and for all that which was layed out for the reparation of the Temple.

geneva@2Kings:12:13 @ Howbeit there were (note:)For these men only had charge of the repairing of the temple, the rest of the money was brought to the king who caused these to be made later, (2Ch_24:14).(:note) not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:

geneva@2Kings:12:14 @ But they gaue it to the workemen, which repayred therewith the house of the Lord.

geneva@2Kings:12:15 @ Moreouer, they reckoned not with the men, into whose handes they deliuered that money to be bestowed on workemen: for they dealt faithfully.

geneva@2Kings:12:16 @ The money of the trespasse offring and the money of ye sinne offrings was not brought into the house of the Lord: for it was the Priests.

geneva@2Kings:12:17 @ Then came vp Hazael King of Aram, & fought against Gath and tooke it, and Hazael set his face to goe vp to Ierusalem.

geneva@2Kings:12:18 @ And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and (note:)After the death of Jehoiada, Joash fell to idolatry: therefore God rejected him, and stirred up his enemy against him, whom he pacified with the treasures of the temple: for God would not be served with those gifts, seeing the king's heart was wicked.(:note) sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

geneva@2Kings:12:19 @ Concerning the rest of the acts of Ioash & all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?

geneva@2Kings:12:20 @ And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and (note:)Because he had put Zachariah the son of Jehoiada to death, (2Ch_24:25).(:note) slew Joash in the house of Read (2Sa_5:9). Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

geneva@2Kings:12:21 @ Euen Iozachar the sonne of Shimeath, and Iehozabad the sonne of Shomer his seruants smote him, and he dyed: & they buried him with his fathers in the citie of Dauid; Amaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Kings:13:1 @ In the three and twentieth yeere of Ioash the sonne of Ahaziah King of Iudah, Iehoahaz the sonne of Iehu began to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seuenteene yeere.

geneva@2Kings:13:2 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to (note:)By worshipping the calves Jeroboam erected in Israel.(:note) sin; he departed not therefrom.

geneva@2Kings:13:3 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all (note:)While Jehoahaz lived.(:note) [their] days.

geneva@2Kings:13:4 @ And Iehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord heard him: for he saw the trouble of Israel, wherewith the King of Aram troubled them.

geneva@2Kings:13:5 @ (And the LORD gave Israel a (note:)That is, Joash the son of Jehoahaz.(:note) saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel Safely and without danger. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.

geneva@2Kings:13:6 @ Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and there remained the (note:)In which they committed their idolatry, and which the Lord had commanded to be destroyed (Deu_16:21).(:note) grove also in Samaria.)

geneva@2Kings:13:7 @ Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of (note:)That is, Hazael and Benhadad his son, (2Ki_13:3). Of Hazael read (2Ki_13:22).(:note) Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

geneva@2Kings:13:8 @ Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoahaz and all that he did, and his valiant deedes, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

geneva@2Kings:13:9 @ And Iehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Ioash his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king (note:)His chief purpose is to describe the kingdom of Judah, and how God performed his promise made to the house of David: but in the process he shows how Israel was afflicted and punished for their great idolatry, who though they had now degenerated, yet God both by sending them many prophets and various punishments, called them to him again.(:note) of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.

geneva@2Kings:13:11 @ And did euil in the sight of the Lorde: for he departed not from all the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat that made Israel to sinne, but he walked therein.

geneva@2Kings:13:12 @ Concerning the rest of the actes of Ioash and all that he did, and his valiant deedes, and how he fought against Amaziah King of Iudah, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

geneva@2Kings:13:13 @ And Ioash slept with his fathers, and Ieroboam sate vpon his seate: and Ioash was buryed in Samaria among the Kings of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:13:14 @ Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, (note:)Thus they used to call the prophets and servants of God, by whom God blesses his people, as in (2Ki_2:12) meaning that they prospered their country more by their prayers than by force of arms.(:note) O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

geneva@2Kings:13:15 @ Then Elisha sayde vnto him, Take a bowe and arrowes; he tooke vnto him bowe and arrowes.

geneva@2Kings:13:16 @ And he sayde to the King of Israel, Put thine hand vpon the bowe; he put his hand vpon it; Elisha put his hands vpon the Kings hands,

geneva@2Kings:13:17 @ And he said, Open the window (note:)That is, toward Syria: so that he not only prophesied with words but also confirmed him by these signs that he would have the victory.(:note) eastward. And he opened [it]. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed [them].

geneva@2Kings:13:18 @ Againe he said, Take the arrowes; he tooke them; he sayde vnto the King of Israel, Smite the ground; he smote thrise, and ceased.

geneva@2Kings:13:19 @ And the man of God was (note:)Because he seemed content to have victory against the enemies of God two or three times but did not have the zeal to overcome them continually, and to destroy them completely.(:note) wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria [but] thrice.

geneva@2Kings:13:20 @ So Elisha dyed, and they buryed him; certaine bandes of the Moabites came into the land that yeere.

geneva@2Kings:13:21 @ And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he (note:)By this miracle God confirmed the authority of Elisha, whose doctrine in his life they contemned, that at this sight they might return and embrace the same doctrine.(:note) revived, and stood up on his feet.

geneva@2Kings:13:22 @ But Hazael King of Aram vexed Israel all the dayes of Iehoahaz.

geneva@2Kings:13:23 @ And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as (note:)That is, until their sins were come to a full measure and there was no more hope of amendment.(:note) yet.

geneva@2Kings:13:24 @ So Hazael the King of Aram dyed: and Ben-hadad his sonne reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Kings:13:25 @ Therefore Iehoash the sonne of Iehoahaz returned, and tooke out of the hand of Ben-hadad the sonne of Hazael the cities which he had taken away by warre out of the hand of Iehoahaz his father: for three times did Ioash beate him, and restored the cities vnto Israel.

geneva@2Kings:14:1 @ The second yeere of Ioash sonne of Iehoahaz King of Israel reigned Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah.