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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Chronicles 24 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/24.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/24-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 2 Chronicles 24</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/23.htm" title="2 Chronicles 23">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 24 <a href="../2_chronicles/25.htm" title="2 Chronicles 25">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">King Joash of Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2KI 12:1-16">2 Kings 12.1-16</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v14_24_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.1" class="v14_24_1">1</span>Joash became king of Judah at the age of seven, and he ruled in Jerusalem for forty years. His mother was Zibiah from the city of Beersheba. </span><span class="v14_24_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.2" class="v14_24_2">2</span>He did what was pleasing to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> as long as Jehoiada the priest was alive. </span><span class="v14_24_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.3" class="v14_24_3">3</span>Jehoiada chose two wives for King Joash, and they bore him sons and daughters.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_24_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.4" class="v14_24_4">4</span>After he had been king for a while, Joash decided to have the Temple repaired. </span><span class="v14_24_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.5" class="v14_24_5">5</span>He ordered the priests and the Levites to go to the cities of Judah and collect from all the people enough money to make the annual repairs on the Temple. He told them to act promptly, but the Levites delayed, </span><span class="v14_24_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.6" class="v14_24_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Chr.24.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> so he called in Jehoiada, their leader, and demanded, “Why haven't you seen to it that the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax which Moses, the servant of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, required the people<a href="#fn" id="link_2Chr.24.6!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to pay for support of the Tent of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s presence?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_24_6">( </span><span class="v14_24_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.7" class="v14_24_7">7</span>The followers of Athaliah, that corrupt woman,<a href="#fn" id="link_2Chr.24.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> had damaged the Temple and had used many of the sacred objects in the worship of Baal.)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_24_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.8" class="v14_24_8">8</span>The king ordered the Levites to make a box for contributions and to place it at the Temple gate. </span><span class="v14_24_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.9" class="v14_24_9">9</span>They sent word throughout Jerusalem and Judah for everyone to bring to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> the tax which Moses, God's servant, had first collected in the wilderness. </span><span class="v14_24_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.10" class="v14_24_10">10</span>This pleased the people and their leaders, and they brought their tax money and filled the box with it. </span><span class="v14_24_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.11" class="v14_24_11">11</span>Every day the Levites would take the box to the royal official who was in charge of it. Whenever it was full, the royal secretary and the High Priest's representative would take the money out and return the box to its place. And so they collected a large sum of money.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_24_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.12" class="v14_24_12">12</span>The king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who were in charge of repairing the Temple, and they hired stonemasons, carpenters, and metalworkers to make the repairs. </span><span class="v14_24_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.13" class="v14_24_13">13</span>All of them worked hard, and they restored the Temple to its original condition, as solid as ever. </span><span class="v14_24_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.14" class="v14_24_14">14</span>When the repairs were finished, the remaining gold and silver was given to the king and Jehoiada, who used it to have bowls and other utensils made for the Temple.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jehoiada's Policies Are Reversed</h3><p class="par"><span class="v14_24_14">As long as Jehoiada was alive, sacrifices were offered regularly at the Temple. </span><span class="v14_24_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.15" class="v14_24_15">15</span>After reaching the very old age of a hundred and thirty, he died. </span><span class="v14_24_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.16" class="v14_24_16">16</span>They buried him in the royal tombs in David's City in recognition of the service he had done for the people of Israel, for God, and for the Temple.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_24_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.17" class="v14_24_17">17</span>But once Jehoiada was dead, the leaders of Judah persuaded King Joash to listen to them instead. </span><span class="v14_24_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.18" class="v14_24_18">18</span>And so the people stopped worshiping in the Temple of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of their ancestors, and began to worship idols and the images of the goddess Asherah. Their guilt for these sins brought the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s anger on Judah and Jerusalem. </span><span class="v14_24_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.19" class="v14_24_19">19</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> sent prophets to warn them to return to him, but the people refused to listen. </span><span class="v14_24_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.20" class="v14_24_20">20</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Chr.24.20!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then the spirit of God took control of Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood where the people could see him and called out, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> God asks why you have disobeyed his commands and are bringing disaster on yourselves! You abandoned him, so he has abandoned you!” </span><span class="v14_24_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.21" class="v14_24_21">21</span>King Joash joined in a conspiracy against Zechariah, and on the king's orders the people stoned Zechariah in the Temple courtyard. </span><span class="v14_24_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.22" class="v14_24_22">22</span>The king forgot about the loyal service that Zechariah's father Jehoiada had given him, and he had Zechariah killed. As Zechariah was dying, he called out, “May the <span class="nd">Lord</span> see what you are doing and punish you!”</span></p><h3 class="s">The End of Joash's Reign</h3><p class="par"><span class="v14_24_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.23" class="v14_24_23">23</span>When autumn came that year, the Syrian army attacked Judah and Jerusalem, killed all the leaders, and took large amounts of loot back to Damascus. </span><span class="v14_24_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.24" class="v14_24_24">24</span>The Syrian army was small, but the <span class="nd">Lord</span> let them defeat a much larger Judean army because the people had abandoned him, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God of their ancestors. In this way King Joash was punished. </span><span class="v14_24_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.25" class="v14_24_25">25</span>He was severely wounded, and when the enemy withdrew, two of his officials plotted against him and killed him in his bed to avenge the murder of the son<a href="#fn" id="link_2Chr.24.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> of Jehoiada the priest. He was buried in David's City, but not in the royal tombs. ( </span><span class="v14_24_26"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.26" class="v14_24_26">26</span>Those who plotted against him were Zabad, the son of an Ammonite woman named Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of a Moabite woman named Shimrith.) </span><span class="v14_24_27"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.24.27" class="v14_24_27">27</span>The <span class="bk">Commentary on the Book of Kings</span> contains the stories of the sons of Joash, the prophecies spoken against him, and the record of how he rebuilt the Temple. His son Amaziah succeeded him as king.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">24.6: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">required the people; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">24.7: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">that corrupt woman; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">whom she corrupted.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">24.25: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">son; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sons.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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