2 Kings 12:2
12:2 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the
     LORD all his days wherein {a} Jehoiada the priest
     instructed him.

     (a) As long as rulers give ear to the true ministers of
         God, they prosper.

2 Kings 12:3
12:3 But {b} the high places were not taken away: the people
     still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

     (b) So hard a thing it is for them, that are in authority,
         to be brought to the perfect obedience of God.

2 Kings 12:4
12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
     dedicated things that is brought into the house of the
     LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the {c}
     account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the
     money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the
     house of the LORD,

     (c) That is, the money of redemption Exodus 30:12, also
         the money which the priest valued the vows at
         Leviticus 27:2, and their free gift.

2 Kings 12:5
12:5 Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his
     acquaintance: and let them repair the {d} breaches of the
     house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

     (d) For the temple which was built a hundred and fifty-five
         years before, had many things decayed in it, both by
         the negligence of the king's predecessors, and also by
         the wickedness of the idolaters.

2 Kings 12:7
12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the
     [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the
     breaches of the house? now therefore {e} receive no [more]
     money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches
     of the house.

     (e) He takes from them the ordering of the money, because
         of their negligence.

2 Kings 12:9
12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in
     the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the {f}
     right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and
     the priests that kept the door put therein all the money
     [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.

     (f) That is, on the south side.

2 Kings 12:11
12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of
      them {g} that did the work, that had the oversight of the
      house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters
      and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

      (g) For the king had appointed others who were fit for
          that purpose, 2 Kings 22:5.

2 Kings 12:13
12:13 Howbeit there were {h} not made for the house of the LORD
      bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels
      of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was]
      brought into the house of the LORD:

      (h) For these men only had charge of the repairing of the
          temple, the rest of the money was brought to the king
          who caused these to be made later, 2 Chronicles 24:14.

2 Kings 12:18
12:18 And 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 {i}
      sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from
      Jerusalem.

      (i) After the death of Jehoiada, Joash fell to idolatry:
          therefore God rejected him, and stirred up his enemy
          against him, whom he pacified with the treasures of
          the temple: for God would not be served with those
          gifts, seeing the king's heart was wicked.

2 Kings 12:20
12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and {k}
      slew Joash in the house of {l} Millo, which goeth down to
      Silla.

      (k) Because he had put Zachariah the son of Jehoiada to
          death, 2 Chronicles 24:25.
      (l) Read 2 Samuel 5:9.