Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 24:10
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2Ch 24:10
And cast into the chest until they had made an end.
Compulsory and free-will offerings
The restoration of Solomons temple by Jehoiada under Joashs authority is a remarkable instance of cheerful giving, of a truly voluntary offering. The money was not raised by a royal edict imposing a subsidy, nor were the workmen impressed for service for so many months in the year. By taxation and by forced labour, or levies, had Solomons temple been erected. Such indeed was, and is, the almost invariable custom of Eastern monarchs in the construction of all great works, whether religious or secular. Though the prince might be lauded as a patron of religion or of art, a rankling sense of oppression and injustice remained in the breasts of the toilers. This Rehoboam had found to his cost, when his people demanded relief from the burdens which the glories of Solomon had entailed on them. We may illustrate this by an interesting inscription at Abilene. A splendid aqueduct and military road have been engineered along the face of the lofty cliff which bounds the deep valley. At the commencement of the aqueduct is the long inscription in honour of the Emperor Trajan, for whom the gratitude of posterity is claimed because of this great achievement. But below the inscription is chiseled deep on the face of the rock, in letters of a rather different shape, added, no doubt, after the emperors departure, Impensis Abilenorum–At the expense of the people of Abilene. (Canon Tristram.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced,…. When they heard the proclamation, and understood for what use the money was to be given, and in what manner; all was agreeable and pleasing to them:
and brought in, and cast into the chest; through the hole that was in the lid of it, 2Ki 12:9,
until they had made an end: everyone had given as much as he could, or thought fit to give.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Ch 24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
Ver. 10-12. See 2Ki 12:10-11 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
rejoiced: 1Ch 29:9, Isa 64:5, Act 2:45-47, 2Co 8:2, 2Co 9:7
Reciprocal: 2Ki 12:4 – even the money 2Ki 12:9 – beside 2Ch 31:5 – as soon Mar 12:44 – cast in of