And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
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Gill's Exposition
And when they were departed from him,.... Having got what wealth and spoil they could:
for they left him in great diseases; through the wounds they gave him, and the distress they brought him into:…
Barnes' Notes
On the unusual character of this expedition, see the marginal reference note.
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
at the end of the year Rather, in the course of a year, i.e. when the same time of year had come round again.
the host of Syria R.V. the army of the Syrians (as in 2Ch 24:24).
the princes Who had been…
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