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2 Chronicles 24:1-27 — Joash Repairs the Temple

2Chr.24.1-27

¹Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah from Beersheba. ²Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest. ³Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters. ⁴Afterward, Joash resolved to restore the house of the LORD. ⁵He gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel year by year to repair the house of your God. You must do this quickly.” But the Levites did not do it quickly. ⁶So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax prescribed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?” ⁷For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and they had even used all the holy things of the house of the LORD for the Baals. ⁸So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD. ⁹Then they made a proclamation in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God had imposed on Israel in the wilderness. ¹⁰All the officials and all the people rejoiced; they brought their contributions and dropped them into the chest until it was full. ¹¹Whenever the chest was brought to the king's overseers by the hand of the Levites, and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the king's scribe and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest, then take it and return it to its place. They did this day by day, and they gathered money in abundance. ¹²The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of the LORD. They hired stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD. ¹³So the workmen labored, and the repair work progressed in their hands. They restored the house of God according to its design and strengthened it. ¹⁴When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and it was made into utensils for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for offering, dishes, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada. ¹⁵When Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, he died. He was one hundred and thirty years old when he died. ¹⁶They buried him in the City of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and His house. ¹⁷Now after the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them. ¹⁸They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs. ¹⁹Yet He sent prophets among them in order to bring them back to the LORD. These testified against them, but they would not listen. ²⁰Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God: 'Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.'” ²¹But they conspired against him, and by the command of the king they stoned him with stones in the courtyard of the house of the LORD. ²²Thus King Joash did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada his father had shown to him, but he killed his son. And as he died, he said, “May the LORD see and require an account!” ²³At the turn of the year, the army of Aram came up against him. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the officials of the people from among the people, and they sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus. ²⁴Although the army of Aram had come with a small force of men, the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash. ²⁵When they departed from him—for they left him severely wounded—his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest. They killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in the City of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings. ²⁶These are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess. ²⁷Now concerning his sons , and the many pronouncements against him, and the establishing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the commentary of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.

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4/11/2026

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