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2 Chronicles 24:2

2 Chronicles 24:2
And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 24:1-14

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

2 Chronicles 24:1-3

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…