And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
This account of Joash's good beginnings we had as it stands here Kg2 12:1, etc., though the latter part of this chapter, concerning his apostasy, we had little of there. What is good in men we should take all occasions to speak of and often repeat it; what is evil we should make mention of but sparingly, and no more than is needful. We shall here only observe, 1.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 24:1-14
And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest. (a) Who was a faithful counsellor and governed him by the word of God.
2Ch 24:1-3 The reign of Joash; cf. 2 Kings 12. - In both accounts only two main events in Joash’s reign of forty years are narrated at any length, - the repair of the temple, and the campaign of the Syrian king Hazael against Jerusalem.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 24:1-3