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2 Kings 12 — Sermon Preparation
Joash orders the repair of the temple and collects freewill offerings for the work, but later pays tribute to Hazael of Aram from the temple treasury. Below is a research summary for 2 Kings 12, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 6
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
2 Kings 12 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֶּסֶף | keçeph | H3701 | 16 | silver, pale |
| בֶּדֶק | bedeq | H919 | 7 | gap, leak |
| יְהוֹאָשׁ | Yᵉhôwʼâsh | H3060 | 7 | Jehoash |
| כֹּהֵן | kôhên | H3548 | 11 | officiating, priest |
| חָזַק | châzaq | H2388 | 6 | fasten, seize |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 7 | give, put |
| שָׁנֶה | shâneh | H8141 | 5 | year, revolution |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on 2 Kings 12, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This chapter gives us the history of the reign of Joash, which does not answer to that glorious beginning of it which we had an account of in the foregoing chapter; he was not so illustrious at forty years old as he was at seven, yet his reign is to be reckoned one of the better sort, and appears much worse in Chronicles (2 Chron. xxiv.) than it does here, for there we find the blood of one of God's prophets laid at his door; here we are only told, I. That he did well while Jehoiada lived, ver. 1-3. II. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 2 Kings 12:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Beersheba 1— 2 Kgs 12:1
- Jerusalem— 2 Kgs 12:1
- Gath 1— 2 Kgs 12:17
- Syria 1— 2 Kgs 12:17
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