Joash Repairs the Temple
(2 Chronicles 24:1–14)
In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash 1became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba. 1Ch 3:112Ch 24:1-142Ki 11:1-42Ki 11:212Ki 9:27 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest. 2Ch 24:17-222Ch 24:22Ch 25:22Ch 26:42Ki 14:3
Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. 2Ki 14:41Ki 15:141Ki 22:432Ki 15:352Ki 18:42Ch 31:4Jer 2:20
Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD. 2Ki 22:4Exo 30:12-16Exo 35:51Ch 29:3-9Exo 35:29Exo 35:221Ch 29:171Ki 7:1 Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.” Isa 58:121Ki 11:272Ch 24:52Ki 12:122Ki 22:5-62Ch 24:7
By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple. 1Pe 5:21Sa 2:29-302Ch 29:34Isa 56:10-12Mal 1:10Php 2:21 So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.” 1Ch 21:32Ch 23:12Ch 24:162Ch 24:5-142Ki 11:42Ki 12:2
So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.
Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD. Mrk 12:411Ch 15:24Jer 35:4Luk 21:1Psa 84:101Ch 15:182Ch 24:8-142Ki 22:4
Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags. 2Sa 8:172Ki 19:22Ki 22:122Ki 22:3-42Ki 5:232Sa 20:25 Then they would put the counted money into the hands of those who supervised the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn would pay those doing the work—the carpenters, builders, 2Ch 24:11-122Ch 34:9-112Ki 22:5-6 masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs. 2Ki 22:5-61Ki 5:17-18Ezr 3:7Ezr 5:8Luk 21:5
However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD. 2Ch 24:141Ki 7:48-50Ezr 1:9-11Num 10:2Num 7:13-14 Instead, it was paid to those doing the work, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD.
No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity. 2Ki 22:71Co 4:2-32Ch 34:123Jn 1:5Luk 16:1Luk 16:10-11Mat 24:45Neh 7:2 The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests. Lev 7:7Lev 5:15-18Lev 4:24Lev 4:29Hos 4:8Num 18:19Num 18:8-9Num 5:8-10
The Death of Joash
(2 Chronicles 24:23–27)
At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem. 2Ch 24:23-241Ch 18:11Ch 8:131Ki 19:171Ki 2:39-401Sa 27:22Ki 8:12-15Jer 42:15 So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem. 1Ki 15:182Ki 18:15-161Ki 14:262Ch 16:22Ki 12:42Ki 16:8
As for the rest of the acts of Joash, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 1Ki 14:291Ki 11:411Ki 14:192Ki 8:23
And the servants of Joash rose up and formed a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla. 2Ch 24:24-272Ki 14:52Sa 5:9Jdg 9:61Ki 11:272Ch 25:272Ch 33:24 His servants Jozabad 2son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer 3struck him down, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David, and his son Amaziah reigned in his place. 2Ch 24:26-272Ki 14:1