Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
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Gill's Exposition
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men,.... It consisted but of few:
and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand; which the king of Judah and his princes had got…
Barnes' Notes
The Lord look upon it and require it - Compare Gen 9:5; Gen 42:22; and contrast the words of Christ Luk 23:34, and of Stephen Act 7:60. Zechariah’s prayer was prophetic (see 2Ch 24:23, 2Ch 24:25; Luk…
Adam Clarke
The Lord look upon it, and require it - And so he did; for, at the end of that year, the Syrians came against Judah, destroyed all the princes of the people, sent their spoils to Damascus; and Joash,…
We have here a sad account of the degeneracy and apostasy of Joash. God had done great things for him; he had done something for God; but now he proved ungrateful to his God and false to the…
Cambridge Bible
The Lord look uponit, and requireit] Cp. 2Ma 14:45-46, and contrast Act 7:60.
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