2nd Chronicles Chapter 24 verse 17 Holy Bible
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
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Now after the death of Jehoiada, the chiefs of Judah came and went down on their faces before the king. Then the king gave ear to them.
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And after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and made obeisance to the king; then the king hearkened to them.
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Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
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Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened to them.
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Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.
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And after the death of Jehoiada come in have heads of Judah, and bow themselves to the king; then hath the king hearkened unto them,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - The princes. These turned aside from the better part they had performed (2 Chronicles 23:13, 20). Made obeisance; Hebrew, יִשְׁתַּחֲווּ. This is the word that is used of the sheaves of the brethren of Joseph bowing down, according to his dream, to his sheaf; it is also the repeatedly used word of the worship paid to Jehovah the true God, and to idols and false gods. The word occurs nearly two hundred times. The obeisance of these princes, therefore, on this occasion lacked nothing of the most pronounced character, and the worst species of flattery gained its disastrous ends. Joash must have been now about thirty-six years of age; he was seven years old when he began to reign, he had reigned twenty-three years before the restoring of the temple (2 Kings 12:6), and a few years had elapsed since. The words of the princes, to which Joash hearkened, are not supplied by the parallel, which indeed at once proceeds to speak of the threatening attitude of the Syrian king Hazael, and of how Joash bought him off. Our next verse, however, shows to what end those words tended.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Came the princes . . . and made obeisance to the king.--As asking a boon. What their petition was is evident from the context (2Chronicles 24:18). They sought the royal sanction of the idolatrous forms of worship, after which they hankered.Then the king hearkened unto them.--Comp. the influence of the young nobles with Rehoboam, 2Chronicles 10:8.
