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But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram [another name for Jehoram, see ], the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash [also called Jehoash], Ahaziah's son, and took him away from the king's sons who were slain, him and his nurse, and hid them in the bedchamber, and they were hidden from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
Jehoash [also called Joash, see ] was seven years old when he began to reign.
[Joash reigned over Judah (the Southern Kingdom) for 40 years (835-796 BC). He was only 7 years old when he came to the throne (). His mother, Zibiah, was from Beer-Sheba in southern Judah (). He could have reigned longer, but his own servants killed him and put his son Amaziah on the throne (). He came to the throne through a coup and died during a coup. In the seventh year of Jehu [of the Northern Kingdom], Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned 40 years in Jerusalem, and his mother's [queen mother's] name was Zibiah of Beer-Sheba.]
Jehoash did what was right (straight) in the eyes of the Lord (Yahweh) all his days, as the priest Jehoiada taught him.
And Jehoash [the young king] said to the priest, "All the silver that is brought into the house of the Lord (Yahweh), the silver that is given in exchange for every man's soul (the ransom) [; ], all the silver from voluntary offerings (which has risen up in a man's heart that he should bring it) to the house of the Lord (Yahweh),
But it was so that in the 23rd year of King Jehoash [he was then 30 years old], the priests had not strengthened (restored) the cracks (damage) in the house.
And King Jehoash called Jehoiada, the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, "Why are you not strengthening (repairing) the house [the temple in Jerusalem]? Now you shall no longer take the silver from your appraisers (Hebr. makar). You shall give it to the cracks (damage) in the house." [Jehoash urges that the collection that had been ordered be ended, see , and instead a new way of collecting funds via collection boxes is introduced, see .]
And Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the sacred things that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had set apart (consecrated), and his own sacred objects, and all the gold that was in the treasury of the house of the Lord (Yahweh) and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram, who had withdrawn from Jerusalem.
The rest of the acts of Jehoash, and all that he did, are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.
And his servants rose up and conspired against him and struck him down at Beit-Millo on the road that goes down to Silla.
[Jehoahaz reigned in the Northern Kingdom from 814 to 798 BC. He did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord (), and God allowed the king of Aram to defeat Israel time and time again, drastically reducing Jehoahaz's army (). Jehoahaz prays to God, and God sends an anonymous deliverer (perhaps Elisha and Jehoash, see ). This is the only time it is mentioned that a king in the north receives an answer to prayer, see .]
In the 23rd year of Joash, son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned for 17 years.
[Jehoash reigned over the Northern Kingdom from 798 to 782 BC.]
In the 37th year of Joash, king of Judah, Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned 16 years.
[Amasja reigned for a total of 29 years. First alone for 4 years (796-792 BC) and then sharing his throne with his son Azarja (also known as Ussia) for the last 25 years, 792-767 BC.]
In the second year of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah (Hebr. amatsjaho), the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.
And Jehoash, king of Israel, took Amaziah, king of Judah, Jehoash's son, Ahaziah's son, at Beit-Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate [on the north side of Jerusalem] to the Corner Gate [on the west side], 400 cubits [180 meters].
And Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
[Jeroboam II was the grandson of Jehu and the son of Joash. He reigned 41 years (786-746 BC).]
In the 15th year of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam (Hebr. Jarovam), son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned 41 years.
his son Joram,
his son Ahaziah,
his son Joash,
But just as the royal children were about to be killed, the king's daughter Joshabath secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, away from the royal sons and brought him and his nurse into the bedroom. There, Joshabath, the daughter of King Joram and wife of the priest Jehoiada—who was also Ahaziah's sister—hid him from Athaliah so that she would not kill him.
[Joash reigned over Judah (the Southern Kingdom) for 40 years (835-796 BC).] Joash was 7 years old when he became king, and he reigned for 40 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah from
Beer-Sheva.
Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as the priest Jehoiada lived.
After some time, Joash wanted to repair the house of the Lord (Yahweh).
King Joash did not remember the love that Zechariah's father, Jehoiada, had shown him, but killed his son. And at the moment of his death, Zechariah said, "The Lord will see this and avenge it."
The Aramean army came with only a small force, but the Lord (Yahweh) nevertheless gave them a very large army into their hands because the people had forsaken the Lord (Yahweh), the God (Elohim) of their fathers. So the Arameans carried out the punishment on Joash.
And Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, was captured [792 BC] at Beit-Shemesh by Joash, king of Israel. When he had brought him to Jerusalem, he broke down a section of the wall of Jerusalem, from the Ephraim Gate to the Ponem Gate, 400 cubits [about 200 meters, probably the northern and most vulnerable side].
But Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash, king of Israel, the son of Jehoahaz.
