from among the people] The reading of the Hebrew is doubtful; the words should perhaps be expunged.
²⁴For 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, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgement[¹] upon Joash.
[¹] Hebrew judgements.
24. because they had forsaken the Lord] Mark the Chronicler’s insistent enforcement of a religious meaning in history.
25–27 (compare 2 Kings xii. 19–21).
The End of Joash.
²⁵And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons[¹] of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
[¹] The Septuagint and Vulgate read, son.
25. for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada] No reason is alleged for the conspiracy in Kings.
sons] LXX. and Vulgate “son”; compare verse 20.
on his bed] In Kings it is simply “smote Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla.”