2 Kings 12

Education does much cultivate and refine nature: Education is a good wall to plant the vine of grace against, but it is not grace. King Joash was good, as long as his uncle Jehoiada lived, but when Jehoiada died, all Joash's religion was buried in his uncle's grave (2 Kings 12:2…

As by Aquila (Exodus 4:12; Psalm 119:33; Proverbs 4:4; Isaiah 27:11) as Drustus observes. And it is so by the LXX (Judges 13:8; 2 Kings 12:2; chap. 17:27). Our Apostle uses it for to make manifest, that is, bring to light (1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Timothy 1:10).

Sixthly, many men may change their lives because they come into better company — perhaps their company is better than in times past, and this may work in them a change in their lives. As we read of Joash, all the while he was in Jehojada's company, he was a well-ordered man in h…

What bud of righteousness was there in Rahab the harlot, before faith (Joshua 2:1)? In Manasseh, when Jerusalem was dipped and in a manner drowned in the blood of the Prophets (2 Kings 12:17)? In the thief, who among his last gasps began to think of repentance (Luke 22:16)?

Fourthly, a graceless heart may be restrained from sin by the force of education and principles of morality instilled into it that way. Thus Jehoash was restrained from evil (2 Kings 12:2): 'And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days in which Jeho…

We have (2) the examples of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:4), of Josiah (2 Kings 23), of Asa, who decreed that whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel (according to the law of God; Deuteronomy 13:9) should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man, or woman (2 Chronicles…