²⁴And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
24. And he took] The verb is missing in Chronicles, and is supplied from Kings.
with Obed-edom] i.e. with the family of Obed-edom which (1 Chronicles xxvi. 4–8, 15) served as doorkeepers in the House of God. The words are an addition of the Chronicler.
25–28 (= 2 Kings xiv. 17–20).
The End of Amaziah.
²⁵And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. ²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? ²⁷Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the Lord they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
27. from the time] The Chronicler characteristically connects the conspiracy with Amaziah’s apostasy; in Kings the only fact of the conspiracy is stated.
a conspiracy] Athaliah, Joash, Amaziah each fell one after the other before a conspiracy. Jehoiada’s example had far-reaching results.
to Lachish] Perhaps he was trying to reach Egypt.
²⁸And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah[¹].
[¹] In 2 Kings xiv. 20, the city of David.