The Koine Bible

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.

And Joash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

And Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he begot sons and daughters.

And it came to pass after these things that it came into the heart of Joash to repair the house of the Lord

And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, Go out into the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to strengthen the house of the Lord year by year, and make haste to speak; and the Levites did not hasten.

And King Joash called Jehoiada the ruler, and said to him, Why have you not looked after the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax prescribed by Moses the man of God, when he assembled Israel to the tent of the testimony?

For Athaliah was the lawless one, and her sons had torn down the house of God, and indeed the holy things of the house of the Lord they made for the Baals.

And the king said, Let a chest be made and let it be placed at the gate of the house of the Lord, outside

And let them proclaim in Judah and in Jerusalem to bring in to the Lord, as Moses, the servant of God, said, upon Israel in the wilderness

And all the rulers and all the people gave, and they brought in and cast into the chest until it was filled

And it came to pass, as they brought the chest to the officers of the king by the hand of the Levites, and as they saw that the silver had increased, that the scribe of the king and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and set it in its place; thus they did day by day and gathered much silver

And the king and Jehoiada the priest gave it to the men doing the work for the labor of the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord, and smiths of iron and bronze to repair the house of the Lord.

And the workers were working, and the length of the work rose in their hands, and they restored the house of the Lord to its standing, and they strengthened it.

And when they had finished, they brought the remainder of the silver to the king and to Jehoiada, and they made vessels for the house of the Lord, vessels for the service of burnt offerings and golden and silver bowls, and they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada.

And Jehoiada grew old, full of days, and died, being a hundred and thirty years old when he died.

And they buried him in the city of David with the kings, because he had done goodness with Israel and with God and his house.

And it came to pass after the death of Joiada that the princes of Judah came in and bowed down to the king; then the king listened to them.

And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Astartes and the idols, and wrath came upon Judah and upon Jerusalem in that day.

And he sent prophets to them, to turn back to the Lord, and they did not listen; and they testified against them, and they did not listen.

And the spirit of God clothed Azariah, the son of Jehoiada, the priest, and he stood above the people and said, Thus says the Lord: Why do you pass over the commandments of the Lord, and you will not prosper? For you have abandoned the Lord, and he will abandon you.

And they conspired against him and stoned him by command of Joash the king in the court of the house of the Lord

And Joash did not remember the mercy which Jehoiada his father had done with him, and he put to death his son. And as he was dying, he said, Let the Lord see and judge.

And it happened, after the completion of the year, that the force of Syria came up against him, and it came against Judah and against Jerusalem, and they destroyed all the rulers of the people among the people, and they sent all their spoils to the king of Damascus.

For with a few men the power of Syria came, and God gave into their hands very great power, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers; and with Joash he executed judgments.

And after their going away from him, because they left him in great diseases, his servants conspired against him because of the bloods of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tomb of the kings.

And those who rose up against him were Zabad the son of Shemath the Ammonite, and Jozabad the son of Shemeroth the Moabite

And his sons, all of them, and the five came to him; and the rest, behold, are written in the writing of the kings; and Amaziah his son reigned instead of him