And the seventh year 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.
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Gill's Exposition
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard,.... This was the husband of Jehosheba, who was high priest, Ch2 22:11 these
rulers over…
Barnes' Notes
See the marginal reference. The captains - The word used here and in 2Ki 11:19, הא־כרי ha-kârı̂y, designates a certain part of the royal guard, probably that which in the earlier times was known…
Adam Clarke
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent - He had certainly sounded them all, and brought them into the interests of the young king, before this time; the plot having been laid, and now ripe for execution,…
Six years Athaliah tyrannised. We have not a particular account of her reign; no doubt it was of a piece with the beginning. While Jehu was extirpating the worship of Baal in Israel, she was…
Cambridge Bible
Jehoiada the priest makes Joash king, and Athaliah is put to death (2Ch 23:1-15)
4. And the[R.V. in the] seventh year So Chronicles. Jehoiada's name is introduced very abruptly and without any…
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