And Jehoiada was buried with the kings in the City of David, because he had done what was good in Israel for God and His temple.
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. How has the gold become dim, and the most fine gold changed! Here we find, I. The occasions of his apostasy.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 24:15-27
And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers,.... Came no more to the temple at Jerusalem, forsook the worship and service of it: and served groves and idols; worshipped idols in groves, which were upon high places: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass: their idolatry, and particularly on these princes, the Syrian army coming against them, and destroying them, Ch2 24:23.
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house. (h) Signifying that they could not honour him too much, who had so excellently served in the work of the Lord, and in the affairs of the commonwealth.