beside  [R.V.  at]  the  king's  honse]  There  is  no  preposition  in  the
original  as  the  italics  of  A.V.  indicate;  the  noun  is  an  accusative  of
place.     Hence  the  'at'  of  R.V.  is  warranted.
On  the  death  of  Athaliah  Josephus  {A)it.  IX,  7.  3)  says,  'Jehoiada
having  called  the  captains  ordered  them  to  take  Athaliah  into  the
valley  of  Kidron  and  there  to  kill  her'.  In  xxv.  4  (see  note  there)  we
find  that  '  the  king's  garden  '  was  very  near  to  the  Kidron  valley.  It
may  be  therefore  that  the  place  indicated  here  '  beside  (at)  the  king's
house  '  was  not  far  from  the  '  king's  garden  '  spoken  of  there.
21.  Seven  years  old  was  Jehoash]  R.V.  Jehoasli  was  seven  years
old.  This  is  the  arrangement  of  the  words  in  2  Chron.  Joash  and
Jehoash  are  duplicate  forms  of  the  same  kind  as  have  been  noticed
above  on  x.  15.  The  shorter  form  is  used  by  the  Chronicler,  and  is
found  presently  below  in  xii.  19,  20.
Ch.  xii.  1 — 16.    Joash  reigns  well  but  the  high  places  are

NOT     REMOVED.        THE     HOUSE     OF     THE     LORD     IS     RESTORED.
(2  Chronicles  xxiv.   i — 14.)

1.  Jehoash  began  to  reigti,  and  forty  years  reigned  he  in  Jeriisalem']
The  R.V.  puts  the  words  into  the  usual  order  in  these  recitals,  by
placing  'began'  before  'Jehoash'  and  'he  reigned'  before  'forty  years'.
