And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that] the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
Ver. 23. And it came to pass, &c.] Agminatim mala irruunt: now began their misery in answer to Zechariah's last, whether prayer or prophecy. Sir Con. MacGenis, one of the late Irish rebels, after he had murdered one Mr Trug, a minister, was so haunted with the furies of his own conscience, that he thought his ghost followed him day and night. a The like we may very well think of bloody Joash. But besides what he felt within, "the Syrians before and the Philistines behind came upon him with open mouth to devour him; and for all this God's anger was not turned away, but his hand was stretched out still." Isa 9:12 See Trapp on " 2Ki 12:17 " See Trapp on " 2Ki 12:18 "
And destroyed all the princes.] Those cursed clawbacks that had marred a good king. 2Ch 24:17 Now it comes home to them, by God's special direction to the enemy, who executed judgment upon Joash. 2Ch 24:24
a Mr Clark's Martyrol., 36.