This document is about Joash (King of Judah). For other homonyms, please refer to the Joash document. Joash was a king of the Kingdom of Judah. When his father, King Ahaziah, died in his childhood and his mother, Athaliah, usurped the throne, killing all the royal bloodline, he escaped with the help of his aunt and hid in the temple until he was six years old. [See Genealogy of the Kings of Judah]
2 Chronicles 22:10But 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.2 Chronicles 22:11He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
이후 7세가 되었을 때 왕위에 오른다. 대제사장 여호야다의 충고와 가르침을 받아 쇠락한 여호와의 성전을 보수하고 말씀을 새롭게 하였으나, 멘토였던 여호야다가 죽은 이후 다시 타락한다.
2 Chronicles 24:1Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.2 Chronicles 24:2Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.2 Chronicles 24:3After this, Joash intended to restore Yahweh’s house.2 Chronicles 24:4He 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.2 Chronicles 24:5The 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 Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”2 Chronicles 24:6For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.2 Chronicles 24:7So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house.2 Chronicles 24:8They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.2 Chronicles 24:9All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.2 Chronicles 24:10Whenever 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.2 Chronicles 24:11The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of Yahweh’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore Yahweh’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair Yahweh’s house.2 Chronicles 24:12So 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.2 Chronicles 24:13When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.2 Chronicles 24:14But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.2 Chronicles 24:15They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.2 Chronicles 24:16Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.2 Chronicles 24:17They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.2 Chronicles 24:18Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.2 Chronicles 24:19The 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 Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’ ”2 Chronicles 24:20They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.
이에 하나님은 선지사 스가랴를 보내 경고하였으나, 요아스는 오히려 스가랴를 죽여버린다.
2 Chronicles 24:20They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.2 Chronicles 24:21Thus 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 Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”2 Chronicles 24:22At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him: and 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.
이후 하나님은 아람 군대를 보내어 요아스를 징계하여 많은 방백들을 죽게 하고, 요아스도 큰 부상을 입고 죽게 된다.
2 Chronicles 24:23For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.2 Chronicles 24:24When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), 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.2 Chronicles 24:25These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.2 Chronicles 24:26Now 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.2 Chronicles 24:27Now 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.