Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
It is remarkable that the first movement toward restoring the fabric of the temple should have come, not from Jehoiada, but from Jehoash (compare II Chronicles 24:4). Jehoiada had, it seems, allowed the mischief done in Athaliah' s time to remain unrepaired during the whole term of his government.
The money of every one ... - Three kinds of sacred money are here distinguished - first, the half shekel required in the Law Exodus 30:13 to be paid by every one above twenty years of age when he passed the numbering; secondly, the money to be paid by such as had devoted themselves, or those belonging to them, by vow to Yahweh, which was a variable sum dependent on age, sex, and property Leviticus 27:2-8; and thirdly, the money offered in the way of free-will offerings.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 12:4:
2 Chronicles 24:6
Isaiah 36:7
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