We have here the history of the reign of Joash, the progress of which, and especially its termination, were not of a piece with its beginning, nor shone with so much lustre.

This account of Joash’s good beginnings we had as it stands here 2 Kings 12:1–21, &c., though the latter part of this chapter, concerning his apostasy, we had little of there.

We have here a sad account of the degeneracy and apostasy of Joash. God had done great things for him; he had done something for God; but now he proved ungrateful to his God and false to the engagements he had laid himself under to him.