2Chr 24
1
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem:
and his mother`s name was Zibiah, of Beer-sheba.
2
And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of YHWH all the days of Jehoiada the
priest.
3
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he engendered sons and daughters.
4
And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to restore the house of YHWH.
5
And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to
the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God
from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter. Nevertheless the Levites hastened
it not.
6
And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why have you not required
of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the
servant of YHWH, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?
7
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also
all the dedicated things of the house of YHWH did they bestow upon the Baalim.
8
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the
house of YHWH.
9
And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for YHWH the
tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
10
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the
chest, until they had made an end.
11
And it was so, that, at what time the chest was brought to the king`s officers by
the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king`s scribe
and the chief priest`s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried
it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
12
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house
of YHWH; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of YHWH, and also
such as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of YHWH.
13
So the workmen wrought, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and
they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.
14
And when they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money before the king
and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of YHWH, even vessels wherewith
to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered
burnt-offerings in the house of YHWH continually all the days of Jehoiada.
15
But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days, and he died; a hundred and thirty years
old was he when he died.
16
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good
in Israel, and toward God and his house.
17
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the
king. Then the king hearkened to them.
18
And they forsook the house of YHWH, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim
and the idols: and anger came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
19
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to YHWH; and they testified against
them: but they would not give ear.
20
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood
above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why transgress you the commandments
of YHWH, so that you cannot prosper? because you have forsaken YHWH, he has also forsaken
you.
21
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the
king in the court of the house of YHWH.
22
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done
to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, YHWH look upon it, and require
it.
23
And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians 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 to the king of Damascus.
24
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and YHWH delivered a
very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken YHWH, the God of their
fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash.
25
And when they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own servants
conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him
on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried
him not in the sepulchers of the kings.
26
And these are they that conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess,
and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
27
Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] upon him, and the
rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the commentary of the
book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.