Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 12:21
Verse 21. For Jozachar] This person is called Zabad in 2 Chron. xxiv. 26; and Shimeath his mother is said to be an Ammonitess, as Jehozabad is said to be the son, not of Shomer, but of Shimrith, a Moabitess. They buried him with his fathers in the city of David] But they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings; this is supposed to express the popular disapprobation of his conduct. Thus ended a reign full of promise and hope in the beginning, but profligate, cruel, and ruinous in the end.
Never was the hand of God's justice more signally stretched out against an apostate king and faithless people, than at this time. Now Hazael had a plenary commission; the king, the nobles, and the people, were food for his sword, and by a handful of Syrians the mighty armies of Israel were overthrown: For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God, 2 Chron. xxiv. 24. Thus, as righteousness exalteth a nation, so sin is the disgrace and confusion of any people. Sin destroys both counsel and strength; and the wicked flee when none pursue.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. For Jozachar the son of Shimeath , etc.] Said to be an Ammonitess, and this man’s name Zabad, ( 2 Chronicles 24:26), and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants ; who is said in the same place to be the son of Shimrith a Moabitess: these smote him, and he died ; justly did he fall by the hands of such persons for his idolatry: and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David ; but not in the sepulchres of the kings, because of his idolatry and murder of a priest of the Lord: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead ; the conspirators not seeking the kingdom, but vengeance on him for his sins, which, whether right in them to do, was suffered by the Lord.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-21 - Let us review the character of Jehoash, and consider what we may lear from it. When we see what a sad conclusion there was to so promising beginning, it ought to make us seek into our spiritual declinings. I we know any thing of Christ as the foundation of our faith and hope let us desire to know nothing but Christ. May the work of the blesse Spirit on our souls be manifest; may we see, feel, and be earnest, in seeking after Jesus in all his fulness, suitableness, and grace, tha our souls may be brought over from dead works to serve the living an true God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויוזבד 3107 בן 1121 שׁמעת 8100 ויהוזבד 3075 בן 1121 שׁמר 7763 עבדיו 5650 הכהו 5221 וימת 4191 ויקברו 6912 אתו 853 עם 5973 אבתיו 1 בעיר 5892 דוד 1732 וימלך 4427 אמציה 558 בנו 1121 תחתיו׃ 8478
