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he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Joash did what was right in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> all the days of the priest Jehoiada. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Jehoiada got two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Some time afterward Joash decided to restore the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>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, year by year; and see that you act quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, on<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11684a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> the congregation of Israel for the tent of the covenant?”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11684b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>For the children of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had even used all the dedicated things of the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> for the Baals.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>So the king gave command, and they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>A proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>All the leaders and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until it was full. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was a large amount of money in it, the king’s secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. So they did day after day, and collected money in abundance. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward at their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, utensils for the service and for the burnt offerings, and ladles, and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> regularly all the days of Jehoiada.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Apostasy of Joash</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died; he was one hundred thirty years old at his death. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and for God and his house.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Now after the death of Jehoiada the officials of Judah came and did obeisance to the king; then the king listened to them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>They abandoned the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of their ancestors, and served the sacred poles<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11696c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; they testified against them, but they would not listen.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Then the spirit of God took possession of<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11698d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> Zechariah son of the priest Jehoiada; he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God: Why do you transgress the commandments of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, he has also forsaken you.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>King Joash did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. As he was dying, he said, “May the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> see and avenge!”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Death of Joash</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>At the end of the year the army of Aram came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the officials of the people from among them, and sent all the booty they took to the king of Damascus. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Although the army of Aram had come with few men, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> delivered into their hand a very great army, because they had abandoned the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of their ancestors. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>When they had withdrawn, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11703e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> of the priest Jehoiada, and they killed him on his bed. So he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Those who conspired against him were Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabite. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Accounts of his sons, and of the many oracles against him, and of the rebuilding<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11705f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> of the house of God are written in the Commentary on the Book of the Kings. And his son Amaziah succeeded him.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 24:6">2 Chronicles 24:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Compare Vg: Heb <i>and</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 24:6">2 Chronicles 24:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>treaty</i>, or <i>testimony</i>; Heb <i>eduth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 24:18">2 Chronicles 24:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>Asherim</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 24:20">2 Chronicles 24:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>clothed itself with</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 24:25">2 Chronicles 24:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Vg: Heb <i>sons</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 24:27">2 Chronicles 24:27</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>founding</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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