Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beersheba.
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Gill's Exposition
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign,.... This, and the following verse, are the same with Kg2 11:21. See Gill on Kg2 12:1. See Gill on Kg2 12:2.
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2 Chronicles 24:3
ch2 24:3
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Barnes' Notes
This chapter is parallel with 2 Kings 12, but treats the matters common to both narratives in a different and, apparently, supplemental way.
Adam Clarke
Joash was seven years old - As he was hidden six years in the temple, and was but seven when he came to the throne, he could have been but one year old when he was secreted by his aunt; see on Ch2…
This account of Joash's good beginnings we had as it stands here Kg2 12:1, etc., though the latter part of this chapter, concerning his apostasy, we had little of there. What is good in men we should…
2Ch 24:1-3 (2Ki 11:21 to 2Ki 12:3). Joash begins to Reign
3. And Jehoiada, etc.] This ver. is not in Kings. It was the duty of a Jewish father to provide his son with a wife; Jehoiada standing in loco…