¹⁵But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days, and he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
15. an hundred and thirty years] The age ascribed to Jacob in Genesis xlvii. 9. Its incongruity here is well pointed out by Curtis who notes that, were the figure correct, Jehoiada’s wife must have been about 25 years old and he about 100 at the time of Athaliah’s assassination. The ascription of so great length of life and the honours of his burial (verse 16) are suitable to the respect which the Chronicler felt Jehoiada to have merited.
¹⁶And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
16. among the kings] Compare verse 25 and xxi. 20.
¹⁷Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
17. made obeisance] Obeisance foreshadowed a request; compare 1 Kings i. 16.
¹⁸And they forsook the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
18. they forsook the house of the Lord] Compare xxix. 6, “[they] have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord.” These phrases are a euphemism meaning “to commit apostasy.”
the Asherim and the idols] Compare xiv. 3 (note).
wrath] Hebrew qec̣eph; compare xix. 2 (note). The calamities in question are narrated in verses 23 ff.