2 Kings 11-12
1599 Geneva Bible
11 1 Athaliah putteth to death all the King’s sons, except Joash the son of Ahaziah. 4 Joash is appointed King. 15 Jehoiada causeth Athaliah to be slain. 17 He maketh a covenant between God and the people. 18 Baal and his priests are destroyed.
1 Then (A)Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah when she saw that her son was dead, she arose, and destroyed all the [a]King’s seed.
2 But Jehosheba the daughter of king Joram, and sister to Ahaziah [b]took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the King’s sons that should be slain, both him and his nurse, keeping them in [c]the bedchamber, and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
3 And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years, and Athaliah did reign over the land.
4 ¶ (B)And the seventh year [d]Jehoiada sent and took the captains over hundreds, with other captains and them of the guard, and caused them to come unto him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and showed them the King’s son.
5 And he commanded them, saying, This is it that ye must do, The third part of [e]you, that cometh on the Sabbath, shall [f]ward toward the King’s house:
6 And another third part in the gate of [g]Sur: and another third part in the gate behind them of the guard: and ye shall keep watch [h]in the house of Massah.
7 And two parts of you, that is, all that [i]go out on the Sabbath day, shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.
8 And ye shall compass the King round about, every man with his weapon in his hand, and whosoever cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: be you with the King, as he goeth out and in.
9 ¶ And the captains of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the Priest commanded, and they took every man of his men that entered into their charge on the Sabbath, with them that went out of it on the [j]Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the Priest.
10 And the [k]Priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and the shields that were King David’s, and were in the house of the Lord.
11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side, about the altar and about the house, round about the King.
12 Then he brought out [l]the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him [m]the Testimony, and they made him king: also they anointed him, and clapped their hands, and said, God save the King.
13 ¶ And when Athaliah heard the noise of the running of the people, she came into the people in the house of the Lord.
14 And when she looked, behold, the King stood by a [n]pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the King, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, treason.
15 But Jehoiada the Priest commanded the captains of the hundreds that had the rule of the host, and said unto them, Have her [o]forth of the ranges, and he that [p]followeth her, let him die by the sword: for the Priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.
16 Then they laid hands on her, and she went by the way, by the which the horses go to the house of the King, and there was she slain.
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, [q]and the King and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people: likewise between the [r]King and the people.
18 Then all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it with his altars, and his images brake they down courageously, and slew Mattan the Priest of Baal before the [s]altars: and the [t]Priest set a guard over the house of the Lord.
19 Then he took the captains of hundreds, and the other captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land: and they brought the King from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the King’s house: and he sat him down on the throne of the kings.
20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: [u]for they had slain Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house.
21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
12 6 Jehoash maketh provision for the repairing of the Temple. 16 He slayeth the king of Syria by a present from coming against Jerusalem. 20 He is killed by two of his servants.
1 In (C)the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign, and reigned forty years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 And Jehoash did that which was good in the sight of the Lord all his time that [v]Jehoiada the Priest taught him.
3 But [w]the high places were not taken away: for the people offered yet and burnt incense in the high places.
4 ¶ And Jehoash said to the Priests, All the silver of dedicated things that be brought to the house of the Lord, that is, the money of them that are under the [x]count, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that one offereth willingly, and bringeth into the house of the Lord,
5 Let the Priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and they shall repair the [y]broken places of the house, wheresoever any decay is found.
6 ¶ Yet in the three and twentieth year of King Jehoash the Priests had not mended that which was decayed in the Temple.
7 Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the Priest, and the other Priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the ruins of the Temple? now therefore [z]receive no more money of your acquaintance, except ye deliver it to repair the ruins of the Temple.
8 So the Priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the decayed places of the Temple.
9 Then Jehoiada the Priest took a chest and bored an hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the [aa]right side, as every man cometh into the Temple of the Lord. And the Priests that kept the [ab]door, put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
10 And when they saw there was much money in the chest, the king’s Secretary came up and the high Priest, and put it up after that they had told the money that was found in the house of the Lord,
11 And they gave the money made ready into the hands of them, [ac]that undertook the work, and that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they paid it out to the carpenters and builders that wrought upon the house of the Lord,
12 And to the masons and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone, to repair that was decayed in the house of the Lord, and for all that which was laid out for the reparation of the Temple.
13 Howbeit there was [ad]not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, instruments of music, basins, trumpets, nor any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
14 But they gave it to the workmen, which repaired therewith the house of the Lord.
15 Moreover, they reckoned not with the men, into whose hands they delivered that money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
16 The money of the trespass offering, and the money of the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord: for it was the Priests’.
17 ¶ Then came up Hazael king of Aram, and fought against Gath, and took it, and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18 And [ae]Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Aram, and he departed from Jerusalem.
19 Concerning the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 ¶ And his servants arose and wrought treason, and [af]slew Joash in the house of [ag]Millo, when he came down to Silla.
21 Even [ah]Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer his servants smote him and he died, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 11:1 Meaning, all the posterity of Jehoshaphat, to whom the kingdom appertained: thus God used the cruelty of this woman to destroy the whole family of Ahab.
- 2 Kings 11:2 The Lord promised to maintain the family of David, and not to quench the light thereof, therefore he moved the heart of Jehosheba to preserve him.
- 2 Kings 11:2 Where the Priests did lie.
- 2 Kings 11:4 The chief priest, Jehosheba’s husband.
- 2 Kings 11:5 Of the Levites, which had charge of the keeping of the Temple, and kept watch by course.
- 2 Kings 11:5 That none should come upon them, while they were crowning the king.
- 2 Kings 11:6 Called the East gate of the Temple, 2 Chron. 23:5.
- 2 Kings 11:6 Or, that none break his order.
- 2 Kings 11:7 Whose charge is ended.
- 2 Kings 11:9 Read verses 5 and 7.
- 2 Kings 11:10 To wit, Jehoiada.
- 2 Kings 11:12 That is, Joash, which had been kept secret six years.
- 2 Kings 11:12 Meaning, the Law of God, which is his chief charge, and whereby only his throne is established.
- 2 Kings 11:14 Where the king’s place was in the Temple.
- 2 Kings 11:15 Or, out of the Temple.
- 2 Kings 11:15 To take her part.
- 2 Kings 11:17 That both the King and the people should maintain the true worship of God and destroy all idolatry.
- 2 Kings 11:17 That he should govern and they obey in the fear of God.
- 2 Kings 11:18 Even in the place where he had blasphemed God, and thought to have been helped by his idol, there God poured his vengeance upon him.
- 2 Kings 11:18 To wit, Jehoiada.
- 2 Kings 11:20 Which by her cruelty and persecution had vexed the whole land before.
- 2 Kings 12:2 So long as rulers give ear to the true ministers of God, they prosper.
- 2 Kings 12:3 So hard a thing it is for them, that are in authority, to be brought to the perfect obedience of God.
- 2 Kings 12:4 That is, the money of redemption, Exod. 30:12, also the money which the Priest valued the vows at, Lev. 27:2, and their free liberality.
- 2 Kings 12:5 For the Temple which was built an hundred fifty and five years before, had many things decayed in it, both by the negligence of the King’s predecessors, and also by the wickedness of the idolaters.
- 2 Kings 12:7 He taketh from them the ordering of the money, because of their negligence.
- 2 Kings 12:9 That is, on the South side.
- 2 Kings 12:9 Or, vessel.
- 2 Kings 12:11 For the King had appointed others which were meet for that purpose, 2 Kings 22:5.
- 2 Kings 12:13 For these men had only the charge of the reparation of the Temple, and the rest of the money was brought to the king, who caused these afterward to be made, 2 Chron. 24:14.
- 2 Kings 12:18 After the death of Jehoiada, Joash fell to idolatry: therefore God rejected him, and stirreth up his enemy against him, whom he pacified with the treasures of the Temple: for God would not be served with those gifts, seeing the king’s heart was wicked.
- 2 Kings 12:20 Because he had put Zechariah the son of Jehoiada to death, 2 Chron. 24:25.
- 2 Kings 12:20 Read 2 Sam. 3:9.
- 2 Kings 12:21 Or, Jozahar.
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