- Why had Jehoiada to wait seven years?
What lessons may we learn from this for ourselves?
Cf. Hab. 2:3. Why did he have confidence that the plan would succeed? - What lessons in careful planning and organization can we learn from Jehoiada in our service of Christ?
- Jehoiada was not content with half measures.
How did he follow up his victory? See 23:16-20.
Notes
- 23:2, 3. This was the preliminary gathering, secretly convened in the temple, in which all present pledged their loyalty to the boy king.
- 23:11. ‘The covenant’: i.e., the book of the law. Cf. Deut. 17:18-20.