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2 Kings 12:17 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 12 · verse 17
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.2 Kings 12:17 · King James Version
2 Kings 12:17 in context
15Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
16The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.
17Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
19And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JerusalemYᵉrûwshâlaimJerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of PalestineH3389 →
- HazaelChăzâʼêlChazael, a king of SyriaH2371 →
- foughtlâchamto feed onH3898 →
- SyriaʼĂrâmAram or Syria, and its inhabitantsH758 →
- kingmeleka kingH4428 →
- GathGathGath, a Philistine cityH1661 →
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When Joash had revolted from God and become both an idolater and a persecutor the hand of the Lord went out against him, and his last state was worse than his first. I. His wealth and honour became an easy prey to his neighbours.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-21