* A.M. 3166. B.C. 838. Now it came.
# 2Ki 14:5-22|
* established to him. Heb. confirmed upon him. he slew.
# 24:25,26; Ge 9:5,6; Ex 21:14; Nu 35:31-33|
No doubt those wicked men, Jozachar and Jehozabad, who
murdered his father, had considerable influence; and therefore
he found it dangerous to bring them to justice, till he was
assured of the loyalty of his other officers: when this was
clear, he called them to an account, and justly put them to
death for treason and murder; for, if even these conspirators
against Joash intended to avenge upon him the death of
Zechariah, they acted without a commission from that God "to
whom vengeance belongeth."
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