Thematic Bible
2 Chronicles 24:1 (show verse)
Joash began to rule when he was seven years old. He ruled for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.
2 Chronicles 24:2 (show verse)
Joash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, as long as the priest Jehoiada lived.
2 Chronicles 24:3 (show verse)
Jehoiada procured two wives for Joash and he had sons and daughters.
2 Chronicles 24:4 (show verse)
Joash wanted to renovate Jehovah's Temple.
2 Chronicles 24:5 (show verse)
He gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them: Go to the cities of Judah, and collect money throughout Israel to repair the Temple of your God every year. Do it immediately! But the Levites did not do it immediately.
2 Chronicles 24:6 (show verse)
The king called for the chief priest Jehoiada and asked him: Why have you not required the Levites to bring the contributions from Judah and Jerusalem? Jehovah's servant Moses and the assembly required Israel to give contributions for the use of the Tent of Testimony of God's promise.
2 Chronicles 24:7 (show verse)
The sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had broken into God's Temple and used all the holy things of Jehovah's Temple to worship other gods, the Baals.
2 Chronicles 24:8 (show verse)
The king issued an order. They made a box and placed it outside the gate of Jehovah's Temple.
2 Chronicles 24:9 (show verse)
They issued a proclamation in Judah and Jerusalem that the contributions should be brought to Jehovah. Moses required Israel to make contributions while they were in the desert.
2 Chronicles 24:10 (show verse)
All the officials and all the people were filled with joy. They brought money and dropped it into the box until it was full.
2 Chronicles 24:11 (show verse)
When the Levites brought the box to the king's officers and they saw a lot of money. The king's scribe and the chief priest's officer would empty the box and put it back in its place. They would do this every day. They collected a lot of money.
2 Chronicles 24:12 (show verse)
The king and Jehoiada gave the money to the foremen who were working on Jehovah's Temple. They hired masons and carpenters to renovate Jehovah's Temple. They also hired men who worked with iron and bronze to repair Jehovah's Temple.
2 Chronicles 24:13 (show verse)
The men worked and the project progressed under the foremen's guidance. They restored God's Temple to its proper condition and reinforced it.
2 Chronicles 24:14 (show verse)
When the repairs were finished, the remaining gold and silver was given to the king and Jehoiada. They used it to have bowls and other utensils made for the Temple. As long as Jehoiada was alive, sacrifices were offered regularly at the Temple.
2 Chronicles 24:15 (show verse)
He died at the very old age of one hundred thirty years.
2 Chronicles 24:16 (show verse)
He was buried in the royal tombs in Jerusalem. This was because he had done so much good for the people of Israel, for God, and for the Temple.
2 Chronicles 24:17 (show verse)
After the death of Jehoiada the priest, the leaders of Judah went to Joash and talked him into doing what they wanted.
2 Chronicles 24:18 (show verse)
The people of Judah stopped worshiping in the Temple of Jehovah God. They started worshiping idols and the symbols of the goddess Asherah. These sinful things made Jehovah God angry with the people of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 Chronicles 24:19 (show verse)
However he still sent prophets who warned them to turn back to him. The people refused to listen.
2 Chronicles 24:20 (show verse)
God's Spirit spoke to Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. Zechariah told everyone that God was saying: Why are you disobeying me and my Laws? This will only bring punishment! You have deserted me, so now I will desert you.
2 Chronicles 24:21 (show verse)
They plotted against Zechariah. Then they followed the king's order and stoned him to death in the courtyard of Jehovah's Temple.
2 Chronicles 24:22 (show verse)
King Joash forgot that Zechariah's father had always been a loyal friend. So when the people of Judah plotted to kill Zechariah, Joash joined them and gave orders for them to stone him to death in the courtyard of the Temple. As Zechariah was dying, he said: I pray that Jehovah will see this and punish all of you.
2 Chronicles 24:23 (show verse)
The Aramean army attacked Joash at year's end. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the people's leaders. The Arameans sent all the loot they took from Judah and Jerusalem to the king of Damascus.
2 Chronicles 24:24 (show verse)
The Aramean army came with a small number of men. Jehovah handed Joash's large army over to them because Joash's soldiers had abandoned Jehovah the God of their ancestors. So the Arameans carried out Jehovah's judgment on Joash.
2 Chronicles 24:25 (show verse)
The Arameans withdrew. They left him suffering from many wounds. His own officials plotted against him for murdering the son of the priest Jehoiada. They killed Joash in his bed and buried him in the City of David. But they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 24:26 (show verse)
These were the men who conspired against him: Zabad, son of an Ammonite woman named Shimeath, and Jehozabad, son of a Moabite woman named Shimrith.
2 Chronicles 24:27 (show verse)
The record about his sons, the many divine revelations against him, and the rebuilding of God's Temple is in the notes made in the Book of the Kings. His son Amaziah succeeded him as king.