2 Chronicles 23:8 King James Version with Strong's Concordance (STRONG)

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⁸ So the Levites ^H3881 and all Judah ^H3063 did ^H6213 according to all things that Jehoiada ^H3077 the priest ^H3548 had commanded, ^H6680 and took ^H3947 every man ^H376 his men ^H582 that were to come in ^H935 on the sabbath, ^H7676 with them that were to go ^H3318 out on the sabbath: ^H7676 for Jehoiada ^H3077 the priest ^H3548 dismissed ^H6358 not the courses. ^H4256

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2 Kings 11:9 STRONG

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And the captains ^H8269 over the hundreds ^H3967 did ^H6213 according to all things that Jehoiada ^H3077 the priest ^H3548 commanded: ^H6680 and they took ^H3947 every man ^H376 his men ^H582 that were to come in ^H935 on the sabbath, ^H7676 with them that should go out ^H3318 on the sabbath, ^H7676 and came ^H935 to Jehoiada ^H3077 the priest. ^H3548

1 Chronicles 24:1-26 STRONG

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Now these are the divisions ^H4256 of the sons ^H1121 of Aaron. ^H175 The sons ^H1121 of Aaron; ^H175 Nadab, ^H5070 and Abihu, ^H30 Eleazar, ^H499 and Ithamar. ^H385 But Nadab ^H5070 and Abihu ^H30 died ^H4191 before ^H6440 their father, ^H1 and had no children: ^H1121 therefore Eleazar ^H499 and Ithamar ^H385 executed the priest's office. ^H3547 And David ^H1732 distributed ^H2505 them, both Zadok ^H6659 of the sons ^H1121 of Eleazar, ^H499 and Ahimelech ^H288 of the sons ^H1121 of Ithamar, ^H385 according to their offices ^H6486 in their service. ^H5656 And there were more ^H7227 chief ^H7218 men ^H1397 found ^H4672 of the sons ^H1121 of Eleazar ^H499 than of the sons ^H1121 of Ithamar; ^H385 and thus were they divided. ^H2505 Among the sons ^H1121 of Eleazar ^H499 there were sixteen ^H8337 ^H6240 chief men ^H7218 of the house ^H1004 of their fathers, ^H1 and eight ^H8083 among the sons ^H1121 of Ithamar ^H385 according to the house ^H1004 of their fathers. ^H1 Thus were they divided ^H2505 by lot, ^H1486 one sort ^H428 with another; ^H428 for the governors ^H8269 of the sanctuary, ^H6944 and governors ^H8269 of the house of God, ^H430 were of the sons ^H1121 of Eleazar, ^H499 and of the sons ^H1121 of Ithamar. ^H385 And Shemaiah ^H8098 the son ^H1121 of Nethaneel ^H5417 the scribe, ^H5608 one of the Levites, ^H3881 wrote ^H3789 them before ^H6440 the king, ^H4428 and the princes, ^H8269 and Zadok ^H6659 the priest, ^H3548 and Ahimelech ^H288 the son ^H1121 of Abiathar, ^H54 and before the chief ^H7218 of the fathers ^H1 of the priests ^H3548 and Levites: ^H3881 one ^H259 principal ^H1 household ^H1004 being taken ^H270 for Eleazar, ^H499 and one taken ^H270 for Ithamar. ^H385 Now the first ^H7223 lot ^H1486 came forth ^H3318 to Jehoiarib, ^H3080 the second ^H8145 to Jedaiah, ^H3048 The third ^H7992 to Harim, ^H2766 the fourth ^H7243 to Seorim, ^H8188 The fifth ^H2549 to Malchijah, ^H4441 the sixth ^H8345 to Mijamin, ^H4326 The seventh ^H7637 to Hakkoz, ^H6976 the eighth ^H8066 to Abijah, ^H29 The ninth ^H8671 to Jeshua, ^H3442 the tenth ^H6224 to Shecaniah, ^H7935 The eleventh ^H6249 ^H6240 to Eliashib, ^H475 the twelfth ^H8147 ^H6240 to Jakim, ^H3356 The thirteenth ^H7969 ^H6240 to Huppah, ^H2647 the fourteenth ^H702 ^H6240 to Jeshebeab, ^H3428 The fifteenth ^H2568 ^H6240 to Bilgah, ^H1083 the sixteenth ^H8337 ^H6240 to Immer, ^H564 The seventeenth ^H7651 ^H6240 to Hezir, ^H2387 the eighteenth ^H8083 ^H6240 to Aphses, ^H6483 The nineteenth ^H8672 ^H6240 to Pethahiah, ^H6611 the twentieth ^H6242 to Jehezekel, ^H3168 The one ^H259 and twentieth ^H6242 to Jachin, ^H3199 the two ^H8147 and twentieth ^H6242 to Gamul, ^H1577 The three ^H7969 and twentieth ^H6242 to Delaiah, ^H1806 the four ^H702 and twentieth ^H6242 to Maaziah. ^H4590 These were the orderings ^H6486 of them in their service ^H5656 to come ^H935 into the house ^H1004 of the LORD, ^H3068 according to their manner, ^H4941 under ^H3027 Aaron ^H175 their father, ^H1 as the LORD ^H3068 God ^H430 of Israel ^H3478 had commanded ^H6680 him. And the rest ^H3498 of the sons ^H1121 of Levi ^H3878 were these: Of the sons ^H1121 of Amram; ^H6019 Shubael: ^H7619 of the sons ^H1121 of Shubael; ^H7619 Jehdeiah. ^H3165 Concerning Rehabiah: ^H7345 of the sons ^H1121 of Rehabiah, ^H7345 the first ^H7218 was Isshiah. ^H3449 Of the Izharites; ^H3325 Shelomoth: ^H8013 of the sons ^H1121 of Shelomoth; ^H8013 Jahath. ^H3189 And the sons ^H1121 of Hebron; Jeriah ^H3404 the first, Amariah ^H568 the second, ^H8145 Jahaziel ^H3166 the third, ^H7992 Jekameam ^H3360 the fourth. ^H7243 Of the sons ^H1121 of Uzziel; ^H5816 Michah: ^H4318 of the sons ^H1121 of Michah; ^H4318 Shamir. ^H8053 The brother ^H251 of Michah ^H4318 was Isshiah: ^H3449 of the sons ^H1121 of Isshiah; ^H3449 Zechariah. ^H2148 The sons ^H1121 of Merari ^H4847 were Mahli ^H4249 and Mushi: ^H4187 the sons ^H1121 of Jaaziah; ^H3269 Beno. ^H1121

Commentary on 2 Chronicles 23 Matthew Henry Commentary

John Gill Keil & Delitzsch Robert Jamieson: Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Chapter 23

Six years bloody Athaliah had tyrannised; in this chapter we have her deposed and slain, and Joash, the rightful heir, enthroned. We had the story before nearly as it is here related, 2 Ki. 11:4, etc.

I. Jehoiada prepared the people for the king, acquainted them with his design, armed them, and appointed them their posts (v. 1-10).
II. He produced the king to the people, crowned him, and anointed him (v. 11).
III. He slew the usurper (v. 12-15).
IV. He reformed the kingdom, re-established religion, and restored the civil government (v. 16-21).

2Ch 23:1-11

We may well imagine the bad posture of affairs in Jerusalem during Athaliah's six years' usurpation, and may wonder that God permitted it and his people bore it so long; but after such a dark and tedious night the returning day in this revolution was the brighter and the more welcome. The continuance of David's seed and throne was what God had sworn by his holiness (Ps. 89:35), and an interruption was no defeasance; the stream of government here runs again in the right channel. The instrument and chief manager of the restoration is Jehoiada, who appears to have been,

1. A man of great prudence, who reserved the young prince for so many years till he was fit to appear in public, and till the nation had grown weary of the usurper, who prepared his work beforehand, and then effected it with admirable secresy and expedition. When God has work to do he will qualify and animate men for it.
2. A man of great interest. The captains joined with him, v. 1. The Levites and the chief of the fathers of Israel came at his call to Jerusalem (v. 2) and were there ready to receive his orders. See what a command wisdom and virtue will give men. The Levites and all Judah did as Jehoiada commanded (v. 8), and, which is strange, all that were entrusted with the secret kept their own counsel till it was executed. Thus the words of the wise are heard in quiet, Eccl. 9:17.
3. A man of great faith. It was not only common equity (much less his wife's relation to the royal family) that put him upon this undertaking, but a regard to the word of God, and the divine entail of the crown (v. 3): The king's son shall reign, must reign, as the Lord hath said. His eye to the promise, and dependence upon that, added a great deal of glory to this undertaking.
4. A man of great religion. This matter was to be done in the temple, which might occasion some breach of rule, and the necessity of the case might be thought to excuse it; but he gave special order that none of the people should come into the house of the Lord, but the priests and Levites only, who were holy, upon pain of death, v. 6, 7. Never let sacred things be profaned, no, not for the support of civil rights.
5. A man of great resolution. When he had undertaken this business he went through with it, brought out the king, crowned him, and gave him the testimony, v. 11. He ventured his head, but it was in a good cause, and therefore he went on boldly. It is here said that his sons joined with him in anointing the young king. One of them, it is likely, was that Zechariah whom Joash afterwards put to death for reproving him (ch. 24:20), which was so much the more ungrateful because he bore a willing part in anointing him.

2Ch 23:12-21

Here we have,

I. The people pleased, v. 12, 13. When the king stood at his pillar, whose right it was to stand there, all the people of the land rejoiced to see a rod sprung out of the stem of Jesse, Isa. 11:1. When it seemed a withered root in a dry ground, to see what they despaired of ever seeing-a king of the house of David, what a pleasing surprise was it to them! They ran in transports of joy to see this sight, praised the king, and praised God, for they had with them such as taught to sing praise.
II. Athaliah slain. She ran upon the point of the sword of justice; for, imagining her interest much better than it was, she ventured into the house of the Lord at that time, and cried, Treason, treason! But nobody seconded her, or sided with her. The pride of her heart deceived her. She thought all her own, whereas none were cordially so. Jehoiada, as protector in the king's minority, ordered her to be slain (v. 14), which was done immediately (v. 15), only care was taken that she should not be slain in the house of the Lord, that sacred place must not be so far disgraced, nor that wicked woman so far honoured.
III. The original contract agreed to, v. 16. In the Kings it is said that Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, the people, and the king, 2 Ki. 11:17. Here it is said to be between himself, the people, and the king; for he, as God's priest, was his representative in this transaction, or a sort of mediator, as Moses was. The indenture was tripartite, but the true intent and meaning of the whole was that they should be the Lord's people. God covenanted by Jehoiada to take them for his people; the king and people covenanted with him to be his; and then the king covenanted with the people to govern them as the people of God, and the people with the king to be subject to him as the Lord's people, in his fear and for his sake. Let us look upon ourselves and one another as the Lord's people, and this will have a powerful influence upon us in the discharge of all our duty both to God and man.
IV. Baal destroyed, v. 17. They would not have done half their work if they had only destroyed the usurper of the king's right, and not the usurper of God's right-if they had asserted the honour of the throne, and not that of the altar. The greatest grievance of Athaliah's reign was the bringing in of the worship of Baal, and supporting of that; therefore that must be abolished in the first place. Down with Baal's house, his altars, his images; down with them all, and let the blood of his priests be mingled with his sacrifices; for God had commanded that seducers to idolatry should be put to death, Deu. 13:5, 6.
V. The temple service revived, v. 18, 19. This had been neglected in the last reigns, the priest and people wanting either power or zeal to keep it up when they had princes that were disaffected to it. But Jehoiada restored the offices of the house of the Lord, which in the late times had been disturbed and invaded, to the proper course and proper hands.
- 1. He appointed the priests to their courses, for the due offering of sacrifices, according to the law of Moses.
- 2. The singers to theirs, according to the appointment of David. The sacrifices (it should seem) were offered with rejoicing and singing, and with good reason. We joy in God when we receive the atonement, Rom. 5:11.
- 3. The porters were put in their respective posts as David ordered (v. 19), and their office was to take care that none who were upon any account ceremonially unclean should be admitted into the courts of the temple.
VI. The civil government re-established, v. 20. They brought the king in state to his own palace, and set him upon the throne of the kingdom, to give law, and give judgment, either in his own person or by Jehoiada his tutor. Thus was this happy revolution perfected. The generality of the people rejoiced in it, and the rest were quiet and made no opposition, v. 21. When the Son of David is enthroned in the soul all is quiet and springs of joy are opened.

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