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Joash (Jehoash) Reigns over Judah
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
All his life Joash did what was pleasing in the LORD’s sight because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Yet even so, he did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there.
The Temple to Be Repaired
Then Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the sacred things which is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, both the money of each man’s assessment and all the money which any man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,
One day King Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as a sacred offering to the LORD’s Temple, whether it is a regular assessment, a payment of vows, or a voluntary gift.
let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever any damage may be found.”
Let the priests take some of that money to pay for whatever repairs are needed at the Temple.”
But it came about that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damages of the house.
But by the twenty-third year of Joash’s reign, the priests still had not repaired the Temple.
Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests and said to them, “Why do you not repair the damages of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but pay it for the damages of the house.”
So King Joash called for Jehoiada and the other priests and asked them, “Why haven’t you repaired the Temple? Don’t use any more money for your own needs. From now on, it must all be spent on Temple repairs.”
So the priests agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the house.
So the priests agreed not to accept any more money from the people, and they also agreed to let others take responsibility for repairing the Temple.
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored 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 which was brought into the house of the LORD.
Then Jehoiada the priest bored a hole in the lid of a large chest and set it on the right-hand side of the altar at the entrance of the Temple of the LORD. The priests guarding the entrance put all of the people’s contributions into the chest.
When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted the money which was found in the house of the LORD.
Whenever the chest became full, the court secretary and the high priest counted the money that had been brought to the LORD’s Temple and put it into bags.
They gave the money which was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD;
Then they gave the money to the construction supervisors, who used it to pay the people working on the LORD’s Temple — the carpenters, the builders,
and to the masons and the stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the damages to the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
the masons, and the stonecutters. They also used the money to buy the timber and the finished stone needed for repairing the LORD’s Temple, and they paid any other expenses related to the Temple’s restoration.
But there were not made for the house of the LORD silver cups, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver from the money which was brought into the house of the LORD;
The money brought to the Temple was not used for making silver bowls, lamp snuffers, basins, trumpets, or other articles of gold or silver for the Temple of the LORD.
for they gave that to those who did the work, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD.
It was paid to the workmen, who used it for the Temple repairs.
Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully.
No accounting of this money was required from the construction supervisors, because they were honest and trustworthy men.
The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it was for the priests.
However, the money that was contributed for guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s Temple. It was given to the priests for their own use.
Then Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
The End of Joash’s Reign
About this time King Hazael of Aram went to war against Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.
Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things 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 went away from Jerusalem.
King Joash collected all the sacred objects that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the previous kings of Judah, had dedicated, along with what he himself had dedicated. He sent them all to Hazael, along with all the gold in the treasuries of the LORD’s Temple and the royal palace. So Hazael called off his attack on Jerusalem.
Joash (Jehoash) Succeeded by Amaziah in Judah
Now 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?
The rest of the events in Joash’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash at the house of Millo as he was going down to Silla.
Joash’s officers plotted against him and assassinated him at Beth-millo on the road to Silla.
For Jozacar 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 became king in his place.