2 Chronicles 24 A son of seven years is Joash in his reigning, and forty years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Zibiah of Beer-Sheba.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A son of seven years [is] Joash in his reigning, and forty years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Zibiah of Beer-Sheba. ² And Joash does that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest. ³ And Jehoiada takes for him two wives, and he begets sons and daughters. ⁴ And it comes to pass after this, it has been with the heart of Joash to renew the house of Yahweh, ⁵ and he gathers the priests and the Levites, and said to them, `Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to strengthen the house of your Elohim sufficiently year by year, and you, you do haste to the matter;' and the Levites have not hasted. ⁶ And the king calls for Jehoiada the head, and said to him, `Wherefore have you not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tribute of Moses, servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony? ⁷ for sons of Athaliah, the wicked one, have broken up the house of Elohim, and also, all the holy things of the house of Yahweh they have prepared for Baalim.. ⁸ And the king speaks, and they make one chest, and put it at the gate of the house of Yahweh without, ⁹ and give an intimation in Judah and in Jerusalem to bring in to Yahweh the tribute of Moses, servant of Elohim, [laid] on Israel in the wilderness. ¹⁰ And all the heads, and all the people rejoice, and they bring in, and cast into the chest, unto completion. ¹¹ And it comes to pass, at the time one brings in the chest for the inspection of the king by the hand of the Levites, and at their seeing that the money [is] abundant, that a scribe of the king has come in, and an officer of the head-priest, and they empty the chest, and take it up and turn it back unto its place; thus they have done day by day, and gather money in abundance. ¹² And the king and Jehoiada give it unto the doers of the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and they are hiring hewers and artificers to renew the house of Yahweh, and also--to artificers in iron and brass to strengthen the house of Yahweh. ¹³ And those doing the business work, and there goes up lengthening to the work by their hand, and they establish the house of Elohim, by its proper measure, and strengthen it. ¹⁴ And at their completing [it], they have brought in before the king and Jehoiada the rest of the money, and they make it vessels for the house of Yahweh, vessels of serving, and of offering up, and spoons, even vessels of gold and silver; and they are causing burnt-offerings to ascend in the house of Yahweh continually, all the days of Jehoiada. ¹⁵ And Jehoiada is aged and satisfied with days, and dies--a son of a hundred and thirty years in his death, ¹⁶ and they bury him in the city of David, with the kings, for he has done good in Israel, and with Elohim, and his house. ¹⁷ And after the death of Jehoiada come in have heads of Judah, and bow themselves to the king; then has the king hearkened unto them, ¹⁸ and they forsake the house of Yahweh, Elohim of their fathers, and serve the shrines and the idols, and there is wrath upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt. ¹⁹ And He sends among them prophets, to bring them back unto Yahweh, and they testify against them, and they have not given ear;" ²⁰ and the Spirit of Elohim has clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stands over-against the people, and said to them, `Thus said Elohim, Why are you transgressing the commands of Yahweh, and prosper not? because you have forsaken Yahweh--He does forsake you.. ²¹ And they conspire against him, and stone him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Yahweh, ²² and Joash the king has not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slays his son, and in his death he said, `Yahweh does see, and require.. ²³ And it comes to pass, at the turn of the year, come up has the force of Aram against him, and they come in unto Judah and Jerusalem, and destroy all the heads of the people from the people, and all their spoil they have sent to the king of Damascus, ²⁴ for with few men have the force of Aram come in, and Yahweh has given into their hand a mighty force for multitude, because they have forsaken Yahweh, Elohim of their fathers; and with Joash they have executed judgments. ²⁵ And in their going from him--for they left him with many diseases--his servants themselves have conspired against him, for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slay him on his bed, and he dies; and they bury him in the city of David, and have not buried him in the graves of the kings. ²⁶ And these [are] those conspiring against him, Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabitess. ²⁷ As to his sons, and the greatness of the burden upon him, and the foundation of the house of Elohim, lo, they are written on the `Inquiry' of the book of the Kings; and reign does Amaziah his son in his stead.