Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
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Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
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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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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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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 24:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 9:5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
- Luke 11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
- John 10:32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
- Revelation 6:9-11 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
- Revelation 19:2 for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
- Psalms 10:14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
- Psalms 109:4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
- Proverbs 17:13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
- Jeremiah 11:20 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
- Jeremiah 26:14-15 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes. Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
- Jeremiah 51:56 For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of retribution. He will surely repay.
- Luke 17:15-18 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”
- 2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
- 2 Timothy 4:16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
- Revelation 18:20 “Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Revenge my death and require my blood at your…
Revenge my death and require my blood at your hands: or he speaketh this by prophecy, because he knew that God would do it. This Zechariah is also called the son of Berechiah, Matt. 23:35, because his progenitors were Iddo, Berechiah, Jehoiada, etc.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the…
2Ch 24:22 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].
Ver. 22. Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness.] This was monstrous ingratitude, such as was that also of Hercules, who, for a sharp word, knocked on the head his tutor Linus: Hoc ictu ceu didactro accepto Linus mortuus est. Johannes Scotus and Cassianus Brixiensis, two famous schoolmasters, were stabbed to death by their unruly scholars with their penknives; Seneca was suffocated in a bath by the command of his pupil Nero. {a} παλαια μεν ευδει χαρις: αμναμονες δε ανθρωποι, saith Pindarus: Good turns are as soon forgotten by men, as eaten bread is by children. Do them nineteen kindnesses, and if ye fail them in the twentieth - which yet, perhaps, would prove no kindness to them - all is lost.
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“ Sunt homines humeris quos siquis gestat ad urbem
Ausoniam, domiti quae caput orbis erat;
Nec tamen ad portam placide deponat eosdem,
Gratia praeteriti nulla laboris eris. ” - Ausonius.
Pythias royally entertained and feasted Xerxes and all his huge army, proffering him also a great sum of gold toward the charges of the war, after which, Xerxes having pressed his five sons for the war, Pythias went to him entreating him to release his eldest son, to be a comfort and support to his old age; but Xerxes, being angry at his request, most ungratefully caused his son to be cut into two pieces, and laid in the way for his army to march over. {b}
The Lord look upon it.] Or, The Lord will look upon it and require it. He did so, and that forthwith, {2Ch 24:23-26} for "precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints," his suffering saints especially. Epiphanius {c} saith that from the death of this high priest, God answered the Jews no more by Urim and Thummim.
{a} Cicero was beheaded by Papilius Laenas, a soldier whose life he had saved.
{b} Herodot.
{c} In Vit. Zacha.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Make inquisition for my innocent blood; which he…
i.e. Make inquisition for my innocent blood; which he did not wish from any desire of private revenge, with which so wise and good a man would never be willing to die; but partly from a zeal to public justice, and the punishment of such gross wickedness; and partly to deter them, if possible, from completing their murderous intentions. But these words may as well be rendered indicatively as optatively,
The Lord will look upon it, and
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require it, i. e. he will examine this action, and require satisfaction from you for it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For the army of the Syrians came with a…
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 together to oppose them:
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because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers; therefore the Lord forsook them, and gave them up into the hand of their enemies:
so they executed judgment against Joash; were the instruments God made use of to execute his vengeance on him for his idolatry and murder.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Require it - Make inquisition for innocent blood. But…
Require it - Make inquisition for innocent blood. But the words may be rendered, The Lord will look upon it, and require it, will require satisfaction from you for it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 22. The Lord look upon it, and require…
Verse 22. 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, the murderer of the prophet, the son of his benefactor, was himself murdered by his own servants. Here was a most signal display of the Divine retribution.
On the subject of the death of this prophet the reader is requested to refer to the note on Mt 23:34-35.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 24:22. When he died, he said, The Lord…
2Ch 24:22. When he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it — That is, make inquisition for my innocent blood. But the words may as well be rendered, The Lord will look upon it, and require it — He will examine this action, and require satisfaction from you for it: a prophetic sentence, which, as appears from what follows, was speedily executed.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The Lord look upon it and require it -…
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 11:51).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Require it. I commit my cause into his hands.…
Require it. I commit my cause into his hands. M. --- The vengeance of the Lord was not slack. H. Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede pœna claudo. Horace)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain when he died, he said, The Lord look upon…
when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it and require it--These dying words, if they implied a vindictive imprecation, exhibit a striking contrast to the spirit of the first Christian martyr (Act 7:60). But, instead of being the expression of a personal wish, they might be the utterance of a prophetic doom.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. The Lord look upon it, and require it]…
22. The Lord look upon it, and require it] Cp. 2Ma_14:45-46, and contrast Act_7:60.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) The Lord look upon it, and require it.—Jehovah…
(22) The Lord look upon it, and require it.—Jehovah behold, and avenge! literally, seek, scil., vengeance for the crime (Gen_9:5; Psa_10:4). This dying imprecation is in harmony with the spirit of the older dispensation, which exacted blood for blood. Contrast the prayer of St. Stephen, the first of Christian martyrs (Act_7:50). The prayer of Zechariah was also a prophecy destined to speedy fulfilment. (See 2Ch_24:23, seq.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Remembered not the kindness. (Gen_40:23) The Lord look upon…
Remembered not the kindness. (Gen_40:23) The Lord look upon it, and require it. So, too, the Revised Version, which also, according to its custom, removes the italic type from the two neuter pronouns "it." But probabaly a better and correcter rendering is, "The Lord will see and will require" (for it is not necessary to regard this as a prayer of Zechariah); and thus bring it into comparison with those divinest prayers of the Saviour and of St. Stephen. The words on dying Zechariah"s lips were perhaps rather the vivid reminiscence of his own well-versed knowledge of the Law, or "the Scriptures". (Gen_9:5 Gen_42:22) The sentence of the dying priest and prophet in one, is, by the writer of Chronicles at any rate, directed in its fall with fearful straightness to the door of Joash the king himself. Remarkable as is the absence of the matter of this and the five preceding verses from the parallel, it will not escape notice how it is implied in vers. 17, 18 there, while the inclusion of it here is again in patent harmony with the great object of the writer.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain But slew his son.
2Ch_24:22
But slew his son.
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Joash and Jehoiada
The picture here drawn of the failure of the best of tutors and governors is unfortunately only too typical. Julian the Apostate was educated by a distinguished Christian prelate, Eusebius of Nicomedia, and was trained in a strict routine of religious observances; yet he repudiated Christianity at the earliest safe opportunity. His apostasy, like that of Joash, was probably characterised by base ingratitude. At Constantines death the troops in Constantinople massacred nearly all the princes of the imperial family, and Julian, then only six years old, is said to have been saved and concealed in a church by Mark, Bishop of Arethusa. When Julian became emperor, he repaid this obligation by subjecting his benefactor to cruel tortures because he had destroyed a heathen temple and refused to make any compensation. (W. H. Bennett, M.A.)
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