The Second Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son
king in his place; for the band of men who came with the Arabians to
the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king
of Judah reigned. {22:2} Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began
to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name
was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. {22:3} He also walked in the ways
of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
{22:4} He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the
house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his
father, to his destruction. {22:5} He walked also after their counsel,
and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against
Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
{22:6} He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they
had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria.
Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the
son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. {22:7} Now the
destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when
he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi,
whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. {22:8} It
happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, that
he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brothers of
Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and killed them. {22:9} He sought
Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they
brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they
said, "He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his
heart." The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom. {22:10}
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she
arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah. {22:11}
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of
Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain,
and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the
daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was
the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn't kill
him. {22:12} He was with them hidden in God's house six years: and
Athaliah reigned over the land.
{23:1} In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took
the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the
son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of
Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
{23:2} They went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all
the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' households of Israel,
and they came to Jerusalem. {23:3} All the assembly made a covenant
with the king in God's house. He said to them, "Behold, the king's son
shall reign, as the LORD has spoken concerning the sons of David.
{23:4} This is the thing that you shall do. A third part of you, who
come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be
porters of the thresholds. {23:5} A third part shall be at the king's
house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people
shall be in the courts of the LORD's house. {23:6} But let no one come
into the house of the LORD, except the priests, and those who minister
of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the
people shall follow the LORD's instructions. {23:7} The Levites shall
surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever
comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes
in, and when he goes out."
{23:8} So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that
Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those
who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on
the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn't dismiss the shift. {23:9}
Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears,
and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in
God's house. {23:10} He set all the people, every man with his weapon
in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the
house, along by the altar and the house, around the king. {23:11} Then
they brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and gave
him the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons
anointed him; and they said, "Long live the king!"
{23:12} When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
{23:13} and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at
the entrance, and the captains and the [1>]shofars[<1] by the king;
and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew [2>]shofars[<2]; the
singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of
praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, "Treason! treason!"
{23:14} Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who
were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the
ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword." For
the priest said, "Don't kill her in the the LORD's house." {23:15} So
they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to
the king's house; and they killed her there. {23:16} Jehoiada made a
covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they
should be the LORD's people. {23:17} All the people went to the house
of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in
pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
{23:18} Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of the LORD under
the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the
house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is
written in the Torah of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing,
according to the order of David. {23:19} He set the porters at the
gates of the house of the LORD, that no one who was unclean in
anything should enter in. {23:20} He took the captains of hundreds,
and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of
the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and
they came through the upper gate to the king's house, and set the king
on the throne of the kingdom. {23:21} So all the people of the land
rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the
sword.
{24:1} Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah, of
Beersheba. {24:2} Joash did that which was right in the eyes of the
LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest. {24:3} Jehoiada took for him
two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters. {24:4} It
happened after this, that Joash intended to restore the house of the
LORD. {24:5} 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. {24:6} 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 the LORD, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah
and out of Jerusalem, for the tent of the testimony?" {24:7} For the
sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God's house; and
they also gave all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD to
the Baals. {24:8} So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and
set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD. {24:9} They made
a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD
the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the
wilderness. {24:10} All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and
brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
{24:11} It was so, that 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. {24:12} The
king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of
the house of the LORD; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore
the house of the LORD, and also such as worked iron and brass to
repair the house of the LORD. {24:13} So the workmen worked, and the
work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up God's
house in its state, and strengthened it. {24:14} When they had made an
end, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada,
of which were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels
with which to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold
and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD
continually all the days of Jehoiada. {24:15} But Jehoiada grew old
and was full of days, and he died; one hundred thirty years old was he
when he died. {24:16} They buried him in the city of David among the
kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his
house. {24:17} Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of
Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.
{24:18} They forsook the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers,
and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and
Jerusalem for this their guiltiness. {24:19} Yet he sent prophets to
them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against
them: but they would not give ear. {24:20} The Spirit of God came on
Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the
people, and said to them, "Thus says God, 'Why do you disobey the
commandments of the LORD, so that you can't prosper? Because you have
forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.'"
{24:21} They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at
the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
{24:22} 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 the LORD look at it, and repay it." {24:23} It happened
at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against
him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the
princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil
to the king of Damascus. {24:24} For the army of the Syrians came with
a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great army into
their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their
fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash. {24:25} When they were
departed for him (for they left him very sick), 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; and they buried him in
the city of David, but they didn't bury him in the tombs of the kings.
{24:26} These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of
Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the
Moabitess. {24:27} Now concerning his sons, and 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.
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Footnotes:
[1] {23:13} or, trumpets
[2] {23:13} or, trumpets
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