2 Chronicles 24:1WEB
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
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2 ChroniclesWEB
2 Chronicles 24:1WEB
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
2 Chronicles 24:2WEB
Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:3WEB
Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
2 Chronicles 24:4WEB
After this, Joash intended to restore Yahweh’s house.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:5WEB
He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.
2 Chronicles 24:6WEB
The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:7WEB
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:8WEB
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:9WEB
They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:10WEB
All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
2 Chronicles 24:11WEB
Whenever 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.
2 Chronicles 24:12WEB
The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of Yahweh’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore Yahweh’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair Yahweh’s house.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:13WEB
So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it.
2 Chronicles 24:14WEB
When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:15WEB
But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
2 Chronicles 24:16WEB
They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
2 Chronicles 24:17WEB
Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
2 Chronicles 24:18WEB
They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:19WEB
Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:20WEB
The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:21WEB
They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:22WEB
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:23WEB
At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.
2 Chronicles 24:24WEB
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 24:25WEB
When they had departed from him (for they left him seriously wounded), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 24:26WEB
These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
2 Chronicles 24:27WEB
Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.