Joash (son of Ahaziah)
요아스 (아하시야의 아들)
Named at 2 Kings 11:2 as “Joash the son of Ahaziah”. At 11:2–3 Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, steals him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and puts them in the bedroom; they hide him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain; and he was with her hidden in the LORD’s house six years. At 11:4, in the seventh year, Jehoiada shows the captains over hundreds the king’s son, and at 11:12 the king’s son is brought out and crowned and given the covenant, and they make him king and anoint him (the Korean Revised Version has Jehoiada anoint him and make him king: 여호야다가 … 기름을 부어 왕을 삼으매). 11:21 says, “Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.” 12:1–2 says that Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and reigned forty years in Jerusalem, that his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba, and that he did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. At 12:4–5 Jehoash tells the priests to repair the damage to the house with the money brought into the LORD’s house; 12:6–7 says that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house, and that King Jehoash then called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house?” At 12:17–18, when Hazael king of Syria sets his face to go up to Jerusalem, Jehoash king of Judah takes the holy things that his fathers had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and of the king’s house, and sends it to Hazael king of Syria. At 12:20–21 his servants arise and make a conspiracy, and strike Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla; Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, strike him, and he dies; and they bury him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigns in his place. WEB calls him Jehoash from 11:21 to 12:18 and Joash from 12:19; the Korean Revised Version writes 요아스 throughout. 2 Chronicles 22:11–24:27: Joash son of Ahaziah is rescued by Jehoshabeath and crowned through Jehoiada. He restores the temple, but after Jehoiada dies he listens to the princes and orders the death of Jehoiada’s son Zechariah. After a Syrian raid he is killed on his bed by conspiring servants, and Amaziah succeeds him.
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- 1CH 3:10–16, engwebp
10Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
11Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
12Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
13Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
14Amon his son, and Josiah his son.
15The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.
16The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.
- 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 23:16–21, 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 24:17–19, engwebp
17Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes 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 Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
19Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
- 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 24:23–24, engwebp
23At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.
24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
- 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.
- 2CH 25:1–4, engwebp
1Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
2He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.
3Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.
4But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”
- 2CH 25:25–28, engwebp
25Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived for fifteen years after the death of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
26Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren’t they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
27Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.
28They brought him on horses and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah.
- 2KI 11:1–3, engwebp
1Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
2But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
3He was with her hidden in the LORD’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
- 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 12:17–18, engwebp
17Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
- 2KI 12:19–21, engwebp
19Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
- 2KI 13:1–9, engwebp
1In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria for seventeen years.
2He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from it.
3The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.
4Jehoahaz begged the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
5(The LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.
6Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)
7For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them and made them like the dust in threshing.
8Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
9Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son reigned in his place.
- 2KI 13:10–13, engwebp
10In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria for sixteen years.
11He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked in them.
12Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
13Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
- 2KI 14:1–4, engwebp
1In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.
2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
3He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.
4However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- 2KI 14:8–14, engwebp
8Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”
9Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
10You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?”
11But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
12Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.
13Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh and came to Jerusalem, then broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14He took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the LORD’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
- 2KI 14:17–20, engwebp
17Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.
18Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
19They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.
20They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city.
- 2KI 14:23–27, engwebp
23In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.
24He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
25He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the LORD, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
26For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter for all, slave and free; and there was no helper for Israel.
27The LORD didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
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Unresolved interpretation: Jehoshabeath and Jehosheba, who hid Joash
- 2 Chronicles 22:11 says Jehoshabeath, Jehoram’s daughter, Ahaziah’s sister, and Jehoiada’s wife, hid Joash.
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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 22:10–12, engwebp
- 2 Kings 11:2 says Jehosheba, Ahaziah’s sister, hid Joash.
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- 2KI 11:1–3, engwebp
1Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
2But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
3He was with her hidden in the LORD’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
- 2KI 11:1–3, engwebp
The rescue scenes correspond, but both editions give different names, so these remain separate nodes pending review.
Unresolved interpretation: Names and parents of the servants who killed Joash
- 2 Chronicles 24:25–26 names Zabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shimrith as conspirators.
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- 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.
- 2CH 24:25–27, engwebp
- 2 Kings 12:20–21 names Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer as conspirators.
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- 2KI 12:19–21, engwebp
19Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
- 2KI 12:19–21, engwebp
Zabad and Jozacar have different names; Jehozabad’s parent is named differently. Source-specific nodes remain separate pending review.
Unresolved interpretation: The father of Amaziah as written in 2 Chronicles 25:23
- 2 Chronicles 25:1–4 describe Amaziah’s accession and the servants who killed his father; 25:25 calls him son of Joash king of Judah.
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- 2CH 25:1–4, engwebp
1Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
2He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.
3Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.
4But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”
- 2CH 25:25–28, engwebp
25Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived for fifteen years after the death of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
26Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren’t they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
27Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.
28They brought him on horses and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah.
- 2CH 25:1–4, engwebp
- 2 Chronicles 25:17 calls Joash king of Israel the son of Jehoahaz; 25:23 calls the captured Amaziah the son of Joash son of Jehoahaz.
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- 2CH 25:17–19, engwebp
17Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”
18Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
19You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you and Judah with you?’”
- 2CH 25:20–24, engwebp
20But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.
21So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
22Judah was defeated by Israel; so every man fled to his tent.
23Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
24He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in God’s house with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.
- 2CH 25:17–19, engwebp
- 2 Kings 14:8–14 call Joash king of Israel son of Jehoahaz, but call the father of captured Amaziah Joash son of Ahaziah.
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- 2KI 14:8–14, engwebp
8Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”
9Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
10You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?”
11But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
12Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.
13Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh and came to Jerusalem, then broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14He took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the LORD’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
- 2KI 14:8–14, engwebp
The wording of 2 Chronicles 25:23 is preserved, but does not merge the two Joashes or change Amaziah’s father. The collection does not decide why the passages differ.
All 22 relationships: AI-assisted, human review pending
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Ahaziah (son of Jehoram) — Father of — Joash (son of Ahaziah)
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 3:10–16, 2 Chronicles 22:10–12, 2 Kings 11:1–3, 2 Kings 13:1–9, 2 Kings 14:8–14
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Zibiah — Mother of — Joash (son of Ahaziah)
Evidence: 2 Chronicles 24:1–3, 2 Kings 12:1–3
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Joash (son of Ahaziah) — Father of — Amaziah (son of Joash)
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 3:10–16, 2 Chronicles 24:25–27, 2 Chronicles 25:25–28, 2 Kings 12:19–21, 2 Kings 14:1–4, 2 Kings 14:8–14, 2 Kings 14:17–20, 2 Kings 14:23–27
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Took part in (19) — Athaliah destroys all the royal offspring, and Jehosheba steals away Joash the son of Ahaziah, 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 reigns forty years in Jerusalem, and does right all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructs him, Jehoash tells the priests to repair the damage to the house, Hazael king of Syria takes Gath, and Jehoash king of Judah sends him the holy things and the gold, Joash’s servants conspire and strike him at the house of Millo, and Amaziah his son reigns in his place, Jehoshabeath hides Joash while Athaliah rules, Jehoiada crowns and anoints Joash, 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, Joash listens to princes but not to the prophets, Zechariah son of Jehoiada is stoned at Joash’s command, The Syrian army raids Judah and Jerusalem and executes judgment on Joash, Joash is killed by his servants and Amaziah succeeds him
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But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Jehoash 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,
But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
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.”
Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
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.
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
Joash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
After this, Joash intended to restore the LORD’s house.
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.”
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Joash (son of Ahaziah) (person-joash-ahaziah) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/joash-ahaziah Current wording: Named at 2 Kings 11:2 as “Joash the son of Ahaziah”. At 11:2–3 Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, steals him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and puts them in the bedroom; they hide him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain; and he was with her hidden in the LORD’s house six years. At 11:4, in the seventh year, Jehoiada shows the captains over hundreds the king’s son, and at 11:12 the king’s son is brought out and crowned and given the covenant, and they make him king and anoint him (the Korean Revised Version has Jehoiada anoint him and make him king: 여호야다가 … 기름을 부어 왕을 삼으매). 11:21 says, “Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.” 12:1–2 says that Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and reigned forty years in Jerusalem, that his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba, and that he did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. At 12:4–5 Jehoash tells the priests to repair the damage to the house with the money brought into the LORD’s house; 12:6–7 says that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house, and that King Jehoash then called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house?” At 12:17–18, when Hazael king of Syria sets his face to go up to Jerusalem, Jehoash king of Judah takes the holy things that his fathers had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and of the king’s house, and sends it to Hazael king of Syria. At 12:20–21 his servants arise and make a conspiracy, and strike Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla; Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, strike him, and he dies; and they bury him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigns in his place. WEB calls him Jehoash from 11:21 to 12:18 and Joash from 12:19; the Korean Revised Version writes 요아스 throughout. 2 Chronicles 22:11–24:27: Joash son of Ahaziah is rescued by Jehoshabeath and crowned through Jehoiada. He restores the temple, but after Jehoiada dies he listens to the princes and orders the death of Jehoiada’s son Zechariah. After a Syrian raid he is killed on his bed by conspiring servants, and Amaziah succeeds him. Cited evidence: 1CH 3:10–16, engwebp / 2CH 22:10–12, engwebp / 2CH 23:1–7, engwebp / 2CH 23:8–11, engwebp / 2CH 23:16–21, engwebp / 2CH 24:1–3, engwebp / 2CH 24:4–7, engwebp / 2CH 24:8–14, engwebp (and 21 more of 29) 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.