12:20 servants. Joash’s servants were sons of foreign women in the government’s employ (14:5; 2 Chr. 24:26).

house of Millo. The term may refer either to a building constructed upon the “Millo” in Jerusalem (the earthworks built by Solomon; 1 Kin. 9:15 note) or to a site within Jerusalem northwest of the City of David (cf. Judg. 9:6, 20).