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2 Chronicles 24 Bible study: All the days of Jehoiada
2 Chronicles buries a priest "among the kings, because he had done good in Israel" (24:16), and a king "in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings" (24:25). Between the two graves, the chapter uses one Hebrew verb five times: azav, forsake.
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“Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.”
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“All the days of Jehoiada”
"Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem" (24:1). The chapter's verdict on him comes with a limit: "Joash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest" (24:2). The same limit closes the repairs: "They offered burnt offerings in the LORD’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada" (24:14). Then "Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died" (24:15), and 24:17 begins, "Now after the death of Jehoiada" (24:17). So the chapter falls into two halves at one man's death. 2 Chronicles has already told what Jehoiada's house had done for Joash: how Jehoshabeath, "the wife of Jehoiada the priest", hid him from Athaliah (22:11), how "He was with them hidden in God’s house six years" (22:12), and how "Jehoiada and his sons anointed him" (23:11). Here "Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters" (24:3).
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Stones those who are sent
2 Chronicles 24:21leads toLuke 13:34
After Jehoiada's death, "he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen" (24:19). Then "The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest" (24:20), and when he had spoken, "They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house" (24:21), the house Solomon built "at Jerusalem" (3:1). Jesus says, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!" (Luke 13:34). Jesus doesn't name Zechariah or 2 Chronicles there, so setting his words beside this chapter is a reading, resting on what each says: prophets sent to bring the people again to the LORD were not listened to (24:19), and one was stoned in the court of the LORD's house in Jerusalem (24:21). Some read Jesus' words as taking in that long story, 24:19-21 among it. Others read Luke 13:34 in its own setting (Luke 13:31-35) and 24:21 only as what happened in Joash's day, and draw no line from one to the other.
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- A chest at the gate
- After Jehoiada
- Zechariah, and the end of Joash
- Three voices, one verb
- The kindness he didn’t remember
- 16 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
עָזַבazavsay a-ZAV
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "leave, forsake, loose". Strong's: "to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.". This chapter uses it five times, and the WEB gives it three English words. The people "abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers" (24:18). Zechariah says it twice: "Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you" (24:20). The LORD delivers "a very great army" into the Syrians' hand "because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers" (24:24). And when they depart, "they left him seriously wounded" (24:25). Shemaiah (12:5) and Azariah (15:2) had spoken the same pair of forsakings before Zechariah.
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2 Chronicles 24 Bible study questions
- 1Joash did right "all the days of Jehoiada the priest" (24:2). Who has helped hold your faith steady, and what would change for you if they were gone?
- 2"All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in" (24:10). When has giving felt like joy to you, and when has it felt more like a tax?
- 3"Yet he sent prophets to them… but they would not listen" (24:19). What makes it hard for you to listen when someone tells you what you'd rather not hear?
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