Jehoiada (the priest)
여호야다 (제사장)
Named at 2 Kings 11:4: “In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the LORD’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in the LORD’s house, and showed them the king’s son.” 11:5–8 give his command to them, and at 11:9 the captains over hundreds do according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and come to Jehoiada the priest. At 11:12 the Korean Revised Version has Jehoiada bring out the king’s son, crown him, give him 율법 책, the book of the law, and anoint him and make him king (여호야다가 왕자를 인도하여 내어 …), where WEB reads “Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king and anointed him”. At 11:15 Jehoiada the priest commands the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and says to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” 11:17 says, “Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’s people; also between the king and the people.” 12:2 says that Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him; at 12:7 King Jehoash calls for Jehoiada the priest (the Korean Revised Version: 대제사장 여호야다, Jehoiada the high priest), and for the other priests; and at 12:9 Jehoiada the priest takes a chest and bores a hole in its lid, and sets it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the LORD’s house. 2 Chronicles 23:1–24:16 says Jehoiada covenants with captains, establishes Joash as king, works with him to repair the temple, and dies at one hundred thirty before burial among the kings in David’s city.
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- 2CH 22:10–12, engwebp
10Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.
11But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him 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.
12He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
- 2CH 23:1–7, engwebp
1In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds—Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri—into a covenant with him.
2They went around 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.
3All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as the LORD has spoken concerning the sons of David.
4This is the thing that you must do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds.
5A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of the LORD’s house.
6But let no one come into the LORD’s house 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.
7The 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.”
- 2CH 23:8–11, engwebp
8So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. They each took 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.
9Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, bucklers, and shields that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house.
10He 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, near the altar and the house, around the king.
11Then they brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”
- 2CH 23:12–15, engwebp
12When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the LORD’s house.
13Then she looked, and behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, with the captains and the trumpeters by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!”
14Jehoiada 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 LORD’s house.”
15So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.
- 2CH 23:16–21, engwebp
16Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.
17All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
18Jehoiada appointed the officers of the LORD’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in the LORD’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.
19He set the gatekeepers at the gates of the LORD’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
20He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the LORD’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
21So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.
- 2CH 24:1–3, engwebp
1Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
2Joash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
3Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
- 2CH 24:4–7, engwebp
4After this, Joash intended to restore the LORD’s house.
5He 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.
6The 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?”
7For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of the LORD’s house to the Baals.
- 2CH 24:8–14, engwebp
8So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the LORD’s house.
9They 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.
10All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
11Whenever 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.
12The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the LORD’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the LORD’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair the LORD’s house.
13So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it.
14When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the LORD’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the LORD’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
- 2CH 24:15–16, engwebp
15But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
16They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
- 2CH 24:20–22, engwebp
20The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey the LORD’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.’”
21They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house.
22Thus 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.”
- 2CH 24:25–27, engwebp
25When they had departed from him (for they left him seriously wounded), 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. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
26These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
27Now concerning his sons, 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.
- 2KI 11:4–8, engwebp
4In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the LORD’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in the LORD’s house, and showed them the king’s son.
5He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;
6a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.
7The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the LORD’s house around the king.
8You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”
- 2KI 11:9–12, engwebp
9The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
10The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been King David’s, which were in the LORD’s house.
11The guard stood, every man with his weapons 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.
12Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
- 2KI 11:13–16, engwebp
13When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the LORD’s house;
14and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”
15Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in the LORD’s house.”
16So they seized her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.
- 2KI 11:17–21, engwebp
17Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’s people; also between the king and the people.
18All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the LORD’s house.
19He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the LORD’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
20So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.
21Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
- 2KI 12:1–3, engwebp
1Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- 2KI 12:4–8, engwebp
4Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the LORD’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the LORD’s house,
5let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
6But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
7Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
8The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
- 2KI 12:9–16, engwebp
9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the LORD’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into the LORD’s house into it.
10When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in the LORD’s house.
11They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the LORD’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the LORD’s house,
12and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13But there were not made for the LORD’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the LORD’s house;
14for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s house with it.
15Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
16The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s house. It was the priests’.
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Unresolved interpretation: Jehoiada of 1 Chronicles 27:5, Benaiah’s father, and Jehoiada the son of Benaiah of 27:34
- 1 Chronicles 27:5 reads, “The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest”, where “the chief priest” can be read with Jehoiada or with Benaiah; the Korean Revised Version sets 대제사장 (the chief priest) before Jehoiada’s name (대제사장 여호야다의 아들 브나야). 27:34 reads, “After Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar.” Neither edition says whose son the Benaiah of 27:34 is.
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- 1CH 27:1–15, engwebp
1Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every division were twenty-four thousand.
2Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
3He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.
4Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite and his division, and Mikloth the ruler; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
5The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
6This is that Benaiah who was the mighty man of the thirty and over the thirty. Of his division was Ammizabad his son.
7The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
8The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
9The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
10The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
11The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
12The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
13The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
14The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
15The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1CH 27:32–34, engwebp
32Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.
33Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
34After Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was the captain of the king’s army.
- 1CH 27:1–15, engwebp
- 1 Chronicles 12:27 reads, “Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred”. The verse names neither his father nor a son of his.
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- 1CH 12:23–37, engwebp
23These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the LORD’s word.
24The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war.
25Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war: seven thousand one hundred.
26Of the children of Levi: four thousand six hundred.
27Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred,
28and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains.
29Of the children of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives: three thousand, for until then, the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to Saul’s house.
30Of the children of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
31Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
32Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.
33Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.
34Of Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
35Of the Danites who could set the battle in array: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
36Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand.
37On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle: one hundred twenty thousand.
- 1CH 12:23–37, engwebp
- 2 Samuel 23:20 names “Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds”, and 23:22 says again, “Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things”. These verses give Jehoiada no title. The Korean Revised Version reads at 23:20 갑스엘 용사의 손자 여호야다의 아들 브나야, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the grandson of a valiant man of Kabzeel.
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- 2SA 23:20–23, engwebp
20Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.
21He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
22Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
23He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.
- 2SA 23:20–23, engwebp
- 2 Kings 11:9 reads, “The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.” At 11:12 the Korean Revised Version names Jehoiada (여호야다가 왕자를 인도하여 내어, Jehoiada brought out the king’s son), where WEB reads “Then he brought out the king’s son”. These verses name neither his father nor a son of his.
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- 2KI 11:9–12, engwebp
9The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
10The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been King David’s, which were in the LORD’s house.
11The guard stood, every man with his weapons 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.
12Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
- 2KI 11:9–12, engwebp
1 Chronicles 27:5 names the third captain of the army for the third month “Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest” (the Korean Revised Version sets 대제사장, the chief priest, before Jehoiada’s name; WEB’s words can be read either way), and 27:34 names “Jehoiada the son of Benaiah” after Ahithophel. 1 Chronicles 12:27 names Jehoiada the leader of the household of Aaron; 2 Samuel 23:20–23 names Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and gives Jehoiada no title; 2 Kings 11:9–12 names Jehoiada the priest. This collection records the Jehoiada of 27:5 with the Jehoiada of 2 Samuel 23:20–23, whose son is the same, and keeps Jehoiada the priest of 2 Kings 11:9–12, the Jehoiada of 12:27 and Jehoiada the son of Benaiah of 27:34 apart. The text does not say whether the Jehoiada of 27:5 is the priest of 2 Kings 11:9–12 or the Jehoiada of 12:27, or whether the Benaiah of 27:34 is Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the collection does not decide.
All 16 relationships: AI-assisted, human review pending
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Jehoshabeath (daughter of Jehoram) — Spouse of — Jehoiada (the priest)
Evidence: 2 Chronicles 22:10–12
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Jehoiada (the priest) — Father of — Zechariah (son of Jehoiada)
Evidence: 2 Chronicles 24:20–22
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Took part in (14) — Jehoiada makes a covenant with the captains over hundreds, shows them the king’s son, and commands them, The king’s son is brought out, crowned, made king and anointed, Athaliah tears her clothes and cries out, and is slain by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, Jehoiada makes a covenant, and all the people of the land break down the house of Baal and kill Mattan the priest of Baal, Jehoash tells the priests to repair the damage to the house, The chest Jehoiada the priest sets beside the altar, and the money laid out to repair the LORD’s house, Jehoiada makes a covenant and orders guards for the king’s son, Jehoiada crowns and anoints Joash, Athaliah cries treason and is killed at the horse gate, The covenant is renewed, Baal’s house destroyed, and Joash enthroned, Joash begins his reign and does right during Jehoiada’s lifetime, Joash orders a collection to repair the temple, The temple is repaired with money collected in a chest, Jehoiada dies at one hundred thirty and is buried among kings
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In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the LORD’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in the LORD’s house, and showed them the king’s son.
The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in the LORD’s house.”
Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’s people; also between the king and the people.
Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the LORD’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into the LORD’s house into it.
But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him 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.
In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds—Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri—into a covenant with him.
All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as the LORD has spoken concerning the sons of David.
So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. They each took 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.
Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, bucklers, and shields that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house.
Then they brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”
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 LORD’s house.”
Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.
Jehoiada appointed the officers of the LORD’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in the LORD’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.
Joash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
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?”
The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the LORD’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the LORD’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair the LORD’s house.
When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the LORD’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the LORD’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey the LORD’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.’”
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.”
When they had departed from him (for they left him seriously wounded), 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. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Jehoiada (the priest) (person-jehoiada-priest) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/jehoiada-priest Current wording: Named at 2 Kings 11:4: “In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the LORD’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in the LORD’s house, and showed them the king’s son.” 11:5–8 give his command to them, and at 11:9 the captains over hundreds do according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and come to Jehoiada the priest. At 11:12 the Korean Revised Version has Jehoiada bring out the king’s son, crown him, give him 율법 책, the book of the law, and anoint him and make him king (여호야다가 왕자를 인도하여 내어 …), where WEB reads “Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king and anointed him”. At 11:15 Jehoiada the priest commands the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and says to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” 11:17 says, “Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’s people; also between the king and the people.” 12:2 says that Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him; at 12:7 King Jehoash calls for Jehoiada the priest (the Korean Revised Version: 대제사장 여호야다, Jehoiada the high priest), and for the other priests; and at 12:9 Jehoiada the priest takes a chest and bores a hole in its lid, and sets it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the LORD’s house. 2 Chronicles 23:1–24:16 says Jehoiada covenants with captains, establishes Joash as king, works with him to repair the temple, and dies at one hundred thirty before burial among the kings in David’s city. Cited evidence: 2CH 22:10–12, engwebp / 2CH 23:1–7, engwebp / 2CH 23:8–11, engwebp / 2CH 23:12–15, engwebp / 2CH 23:16–21, engwebp / 2CH 24:1–3, engwebp / 2CH 24:4–7, engwebp / 2CH 24:8–14, engwebp (and 10 more of 18) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.