Chronological
12 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign and reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 And Jehoash did that which was good in the sight of the LORD all his time that Jehoiada the Priest taught him.
3 But the high places were not taken away; for the people still offered and burnt incense in the high places.
4 And Jehoash said to the priests, “All the silver of dedicated things that is brought to the House of the LORD — the money of those counted, the money that each man is assessed, all the money that one offers willingly and brings into the House of the LORD —
5 “let the priests take it themselves, every man from his acquaintances. And they shall repair the broken places of the House, wherever any decay is found.”
6 Yet, by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had still not mended that which had decayed in the Temple.
7 Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the Priest and the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the ruins of the Temple? Now, therefore, receive no more money from your acquaintances unless you deliver it to repair the ruins of the Temple.”
8 So the priests consented to neither receive any more money from the people nor to repair the decayed places of the Temple.
9 Then, Jehoiada the Priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the Altar, on the right side, as every man comes into the Temple of the LORD. And the priests who kept the door put in all the money that was brought into the House of the LORD.
10 And when they saw there was much money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the High Priest came up and put it in bags, after they had counted all the money that had been found in the House of the LORD.
11 And they gave the money, having been measured, into the hands of those who undertook the work, and who had oversight of the House of the LORD. And they paid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked upon the House of the LORD,
12 and to the masons and stonecutters, and to buy timber and hewn stone, to repair what had decayed in the House of the LORD, and for all that which had been laid out for the reparation of the Temple.
13 However, no bowls of silver were made for the House of the LORD — or instruments of music, basins, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver — from the money that was brought into the House of the LORD.
14 But they gave it to the workmen, who repaired the House of the LORD with it.
15 Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hands they delivered that money, to be bestowed on workmen. For they dealt faithfully.
16 The money of the Trespass Offering, and the money of the Sin Offerings, was not brought into the House of the LORD. It was the priests’.
17 Then Hazael, king of Aram, came up and fought against Gath, and took it. And Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18 And Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the House of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram. And he departed from Jerusalem.
19 Concerning the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
20 And his servants arose and worked treason, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, when he came down to Silla.
21 Jozachar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. And Amaziah, his son, reigned in his place.
13 In the twenty-third year of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, began to reign over Israel in Samaria (for seventeen years).
2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, and did not depart from it.
3 And the LORD was angry with Israel, and delivered them into the hand of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the hand of Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, all his days.
4 And Jehoahaz prayed to the LORD, and the LORD heard him. For He saw the trouble of Israel with which the king of Aram troubled them.
5 And the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, so that they came out from under the subjection of the Aramites. And the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before.
6 Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the House of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but still walked in them. Even the grove still remained in Samaria.
7 For he had only fifty horsemen left of the people to Jehoahaz, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, because the king of Aram had destroyed them, and made them like dust, beaten to powder.
8 Concerning the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did, and his valiant deeds, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers. And they buried him in Samaria. And Joash his son reigned in his place.
10 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash, king of Judah, Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, began to reign over Israel in Samaria (for sixteen years)
11 and did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, but he walked in them.
12 Concerning the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his valiant deeds — how he fought against Amaziah, king of Judah — are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
13 And Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat upon his seat. And Joash was buried in Samaria, among the kings of Israel.
14 When Elisha fell sick with the sickness of which he died, Joash, the king of Israel, came down to him and wept upon his face, and said, “O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen of the same!”
15 Then Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and arrows.” And he took to him bow and arrows.
16 And he said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand upon the bow.” And he put his hand upon it. And Elisha put his hands upon the king’s hands,
17 And said, “Open the east-facing window.” And when he had opened it, Elisha said, “Shoot.” And he shot. And he said, “The arrow of the LORD’s deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance against Aram. For you shall strike the Aramites in Aphek, until you have consumed them.”
18 Again he said, “Take the arrows.” And he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground.” And he struck three times and ceased.
19 Then the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times! So you should have struck Aram, until you had consumed it! Whereas now you shall strike Aram but three times.”
20 So Elisha died, and they buried him. And bands of the Moabites came into the land that year.
21 And as they were burying a man, behold, they saw the soldiers. Therefore, they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha. And when the man was down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood upon his feet.
22 But Hazael, king of Aram, troubled Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
23 Therefore, the LORD had mercy on them and pitied them and regarded them — because of His Covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — and would neither destroy them nor cast them from Him yet.
24 So Hazael, the king of Aram, died. And Ben-Hadad, his son, reigned in his place.
25 Therefore Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, returned and took the cities out of the hand of Ben-Hadad (the son of Hazael) which he had taken away by war out of the hand of Jehoahaz, his father. Three times Joash beat him and restored the cities to Israel.
24 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
2 And Joash did uprightly in the sight of the LORD, all the days of Jehoiada the Priest.
3 And Jehoiada took two wives for himself. And he begat sons and daughters.
4 And afterward it came into Joash’s mind to renew the House of the LORD.
5 And he assembled the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather money from all Israel to repair the House of your God, from year to year. And do so quickly!” But the Levites were not quick.
6 Therefore, the king called Jehoiada the High Priest and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the Congregation of Israel, for the Tabernacle of the Testimony?
7 “For wicked Athaliah and her children broke up the House of God. And they bestowed all the things that were dedicated for the House of the LORD upon Baal!”
8 Therefore, the king commanded. And they made a chest and set it at the gate of the House of the LORD, outside.
9 And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring the tax of Moses the servant of God to the LORD, as 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 finished.
11 And when it was time, they brought the chest to the king’s officer by the hand of the Levites. And when they saw that there was much silver, then the king’s scribe (and one appointed by the High Priest) came and emptied the chest and took it and carried it back to its place. Thus they did, day by day, and gathered silver in abundance.
12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the labor and work in the House of the LORD and hired masons and carpenters to repair the House of the LORD. They also hired workers of iron and bronze, to repair the House of the LORD.
13 So the workmen worked. And the work was finished through their hands. And they restored the House of God to its state and strengthened it.
14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the silver before the king and Jehoiada. And from it he made vessels for the House of the LORD, vessels for ministry, mortars and cups, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered Burnt Offerings in the House of the LORD continually, all the days of Jehoiada.
15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days and died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
16 And they buried him with the kings, in the City of David, because he had done good in Israel and toward God and His House.
17 And after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and did reverence to the king. And the king listened to them.
18 And they left the House of the LORD God of their fathers and served groves and idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem, because of this their trespass.
19 And God sent Prophets among them, to bring them back to the LORD. And they testified against them. But they would not hear.
20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the Priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God: ‘Why do you transgress the Commandments of the LORD? Surely you shall not prosper! Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you!”
21 Then they conspired against him and stoned him with stones, at the commandment of the king, in the court of the House of the LORD.
22 Thus, Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada, his father, had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, “The LORD look upon it and require it!”
23 And when the year was out, the army of Aram came up against him. And they came against 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 Though the army of Aram came with a small company of men, the LORD still delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. And they gave sentence against Joash.
25 And when they had departed from him (for they left him with great disease), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the children of Jehoiada the Priest and killed him on his bed. And he died. And they buried him in the City of David. But they did not bury him in the sepulchers of the kings.
26 And these are those who conspired against him: Zabad, the son of Shimrath (an Ammonitess) and Jehozabad, the son of Shimrith (a Moabitess).
27 As for his sons, and the sum of the tax gathered by him, and the foundation of the House of God, behold, they are written in the story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah, his son, reigned in his place.
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