2 Chronicles 23:9
spears <02595> [spears.]
temple <01004> [which were in the house.]
When the soldier retired from the tumults of war to the bosom of his family, he frequently hung up his arms in the temple, as a grateful acknowledgment of the protection he had received, and of the victories he had won. It is highly probable, therefore, that the arms of David which Jehoiada delivered to the captains of hundreds, "which were in the house of God," were laid up in the tabernacle by David when he resigned the command of his armies to his generals; and there is reason to believe that his conduct, in this respect, was followed by many of his companions in arms.
2 Chronicles 23:11
out <03318> [They brought.]
placed ..... crown <05414 05145> [put upon.]
insignia <05715> [the testimony.]
poured ........ declared <04886 0559> [anointed him.]
king's ........................... live ... king <02421 04428> [God save the king. Heb. Let the king live.]
2 Chronicles 24:22
disregarded <02142> [remembered.]
killed ... son <01121 02026> [but slew his son.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
These words were prophetic, and not imprecatory; and should be rendered as Houbigant proposes, in the future tense: "The Lord will look upon it, and avenge it." The event soon verified this prediction; for, before the year was expired, the Syrians came up against Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people, and Joash himself was slain in his bed by his own servants. Many circumstances served to aggravate this barbarous act. Zechariah was a high-priest and a prophet, upright and unblameable in the discharge of his high offices; this murder was perpetrated within the very precincts of the courts of the Lord; and this truly good man was by blood the nearest relative of Joash, and the son of the man who had save him from being murdered, and raised him to the throne!
seek <01875> [and require it.]
