Athaliah Queen of Judah

11 ^(A)When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and eliminated all the royal ^[a]children. ² But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, ^(B)took Joash the son of Ahaziah and abducted him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death. ³ So he was kept hidden with her in the house of the Lord for six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

^4 (C)Now in the seventh year Jehoiada sent orders and brought the captains of hundreds of ^(D)the Carites and of the ^[b]guards, and brought them to himself at the house of the Lord. Then he made a covenant with them and put them under oath at the house of the Lord, and showed them the king’s son. ⁵ And he commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do: ^(E)a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath and keep watch over the king’s house ⁶ (a third also shall be at the gate Sur, and a third at the gate behind the ^[c]guards), ^[d]shall keep watch over the house ^[e]for defense. ⁷ And two parts of you, all who go out on the Sabbath, shall also keep watch over the house of the Lord for the king. ⁸ Then you shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes within the ranks shall be put to death. And ^(F)you are to be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”

⁹ So the captains of hundreds ^(G)acted in accordance with everything that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the Sabbath, along with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and they came to Jehoiada the priest. ¹⁰ Then ^(H)the priest gave the captains of hundreds the spears and shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of the Lord. ¹¹ The ^[f]guards stood, each with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around the king. ¹² Then he brought the king’s son out, and ^(I)put the crown on him and gave him ^(J)the testimony; and they made him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, “^(K)Long live the king!”

^13 (L)When Athaliah heard the noise of the guards and of the people, she came to the people at the house of the Lord. ¹⁴ And she looked, and behold, the king was standing ^(M)by the pillar according to the custom, with the captains and the ^[g]trumpeters beside the king; and ^(N)all the people of the land were joyful and were blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah ^(O)tore her clothes and cried out, “^(P)Conspiracy! Conspiracy!” ¹⁵ And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were appointed over the army and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever follows her, put to death with the sword!” For the priest said, “She is not to be put to death at the house of the Lord.” ¹⁶ So they ^[h]seized her, and when ^[i]they brought her to the horses’ entrance of the king’s house, she was ^(Q)put to death there.

¹⁷ Then ^(R)Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people, that they would be the Lord’s people, and ^(S)between the king and the people. ¹⁸ And all the people of the land came to ^(T)the house of Baal and tore it down; they thoroughly smashed ^(U)his altars and his images in pieces, and they ^(V)killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. Then the priest appointed sentries over the house of the Lord. ¹⁹ And he took the captains of hundreds and the ^(W)Carites, and the ^[j]guards and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, and came by way of ^(X)the gate of the ^[k]guards to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. ²⁰ So ^(Y)all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was ^[l]peaceful. For they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king’s house.

^21 [m](Z)Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

Jehoash (Joash) Reigns over Judah

12 In the seventh year of Jehu, ^[n](AA)Jehoash became king, and he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. ² Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all his days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him. ³ Only ^(AB)the high places did not end; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

The Temple to Be Repaired

⁴ Then Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the sacred offerings ^(AC)which is brought into the house of the Lord, in current money, both ^(AD)the money of each man’s assessment and all the money ^[o]which anyone’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord, ⁵ the priests are to take it for themselves, each from his ^[p]acquaintance; and they shall repair ^[q]damage to the house wherever ^[r]any damage is found.”

⁶ But it came about that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, ^(AE)the priests had not repaired any damage to the house. ⁷ So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, “Why do you not repair damage to the house? Now then, you are not to take any more money from your ^[s]acquaintances, but give it up for the damage to the house.” ⁸ The priests then agreed that they would not take any more money from the people, nor would they ^[t]repair damage to the house.

⁹ Instead, ^(AF)Jehoiada the priest ^[u]took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord. ¹⁰ When they saw that there was a great amount of money in the chest, ^(AG)the king’s scribe and the high priest went up and tied it up in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord. ¹¹ And they handed the money which was assessed over to those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they ^[v]paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the Lord; ¹² and ^(AH)to the masons and the stonecutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the house of the Lord, and for everything that ^[w]was laid out for the house to repair it. ¹³ However ^(AI)there were not made for the house of the Lord ^(AJ)silver cups, shears, bowls, trumpets, any receptacles of gold, or receptacles of silver from the money which was brought into the house of the Lord; ¹⁴ for they gave that to those who did the work, and with it they repaired the house of the Lord. ¹⁵ Moreover, ^(AK)they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hands they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, because they acted faithfully. ¹⁶ The ^(AL)money from the guilt offerings and ^(AM)the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord; ^(AN)it belonged to the priests.

¹⁷ Then ^(AO)Hazael the king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and ^(AP)Hazael ^[x]was intent on going up against Jerusalem. ¹⁸ So ^(AQ)Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred offerings that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had consecrated, and ^(AR)his own sacred offerings, and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he withdrew from Jerusalem.

Joash (Jehoash) Succeeded by Amaziah in Judah

¹⁹ Now as for the rest of the acts of Joash and everything that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ²⁰ And ^(AS)his servants rose up and formed a conspiracy; and they ^(AT)struck and killed Joash at ^(AU)the house of Millo as he was going down to Silla. ²¹ For Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of ^(AV)Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and his son ^(AW)Amaziah became king in his place.

Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Saving Goodness.

The Gospel Exalted

1 Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, ^[a](A)called as an apostle, ^(B)set apart for ^(C)the gospel of God, ² which He ^(D)promised beforehand through His ^(E)prophets in the holy Scriptures, ³ concerning His Son, who was born ^(F)of a ^[b]descendant of David ^(G)according to the flesh, ⁴ who was declared ^(H)the Son of God with power according to the ^[c]Spirit of holiness ^[d]by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, ⁵ through whom we have received grace and ^(I)apostleship ^[e]to bring about the ^(J)obedience of faith among ^(K)all the Gentiles in behalf of His name, ⁶ among whom you also are the ^(L)called of Jesus Christ;

⁷ to all who are ^(M)beloved of God in Rome, called as ^[f](N)saints: ^(O)Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ First, ^(P)I thank my God through Jesus Christ ^[g]for you all, because ^(Q)your faith is being proclaimed throughout the world. ⁹ For ^(R)God, whom I ^(S)serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly ^(T)I make mention of you, ¹⁰ always in my prayers requesting if perhaps now, at last by ^(U)the will of God, I will succeed in coming to you. ¹¹ For ^(V)I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be ^[h]established; ¹² that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine. ^13 (W)I do not want you to be unaware, ^(X)brothers and sisters, that often I ^(Y)have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some ^(Z)fruit among you also just as among the rest of the Gentiles. ^14 (AA)I am ^[i]under obligation both to Greeks and to the ^[j](AB)uncultured, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵ So, for my part, I am eager to ^(AC)preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

¹⁶ For I am not ^(AD)ashamed of the gospel, for ^(AE)it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the ^(AF)Jew first and also to ^(AG)the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it ^(AH)the righteousness of God is revealed ^[k]from faith to faith; as it is written: “^[l](AI)But the righteous one will live by faith.”

Unbelief and Its Consequences

¹⁸ For ^(AJ)the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who ^(AK)suppress the truth ^[m]in unrighteousness, ¹⁹ because ^(AL)that which is known about God is evident ^[n]within them; for God made it evident to them. ²⁰ For ^(AM)since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ^(AN)being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse. ²¹ For even though they knew God, they did not ^[o]honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became ^(AO)futile in their reasonings, and their senseless hearts were darkened. ^22 (AP)Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and they ^(AQ)exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible mankind, of birds, four-footed animals, and ^[p]crawling creatures.

²⁴ Therefore ^(AR)God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be ^(AS)dishonored among them. ²⁵ For they exchanged the truth of God for ^[q](AT)falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, ^(AU)who is blessed ^[r]forever. Amen.

²⁶ For this reason ^(AV)God gave them over to ^(AW)degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature, ²⁷ and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations ^[s]with women and burned in their desire toward one another, ^(AX)males with males committing ^[t]shameful acts and receiving in ^[u]their own persons the due penalty of their error.

²⁸ And just as they did not see fit ^[v]to acknowledge God, ^(AY)God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper, ²⁹ people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are ^(AZ)gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, ^[w](BA)haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, ^(BB)disobedient to parents, ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, ^(BC)unfeeling, and unmerciful; ³² and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of ^(BD)death, they not only do the same, but also ^(BE)approve of those who practice them.