1Joash was just seven when he started his reign, and he ruled for forty years in Jerusalem. His mom was Zibiah from Beer-sheba, no cap.

2Joash was out here doing what was right in the Lord's eyes as long as Jehoiada the priest was around, fr.

3Jehoiada hooked him up with two wives, and he had sons and daughters, vibin' hard.

4After a bit, Joash was like, "We gotta fix up the Lord's house," and that was the move.

5He gathered the priests and Levites, telling them to hit up the cities of Judah for cash to repair God's crib, but the Levites were kinda sus about it.

6The king called out Jehoiada, asking why the Levites weren't bringing in the funds from Judah and Jerusalem like Moses said, periodt.

7The sons of Athaliah, that wicked queen, totally wrecked God's house and gave all the holy stuff to Baalim, savage.

8So the king had them make a chest and put it outside the Lord's house gate, keeping it real.

9They spread the word through Judah and Jerusalem to bring in the collection Moses laid down for the Lord back in the day, no cap.

10Everyone was hyped and brought their stuff to the chest until they were done, it was lit.

11So, like, when the chest was brought to the king’s spot by the Levites, they saw mad cash in there. The king’s scribe and the high priest’s dude came through, emptied it out, and took it back. They did this every day, stacking up the dough.

12The king and Jehoiada were like, “Bet, let’s give this to the peeps working on the Lord’s house,” hiring masons and carpenters to fix things up, plus iron and brass workers to get it all sorted.

13The workers popped off, and the job was lit; they got the house of God back in shape and made it strong.

14Once they wrapped it up, they brought the leftover cash to the king and Jehoiada, making cool stuff for the Lord’s house, like vessels to use and offer, plus gold and silver spoons. They kept it bussin’ with burnt offerings all the time while Jehoiada was around.

15But then Jehoiada got old and full of life when he passed; dude was 130 years deep when he died.

16They laid him to rest in the city of David with the kings ‘cause he was a straight-up legend in Israel, both for God and his house.

17After Jehoiada passed, the princes of Judah rolled up and showed respect to the king, and the king listened up.

18But then they dipped from the house of the Lord, serving groves and idols, and it was sus; wrath hit Judah and Jerusalem for that mess.

19Still, he sent prophets to pull them back to the Lord; they spoke truth, but the people were like, “Nah,” and didn’t listen.

20The Spirit of God hit Zechariah, Jehoiada’s son, who stood above the crowd and said, “Yo, God’s saying, why you breaking the Lord’s commandments and not thriving? You ghosted the Lord, so He ghosted you too.”

21They lowkey plotted against him and threw stones at him on the king's orders in the Lord's house. Savage vibes.

22Joash totally forgot the kindness his dad Jehoiada showed him and straight-up killed his son. When he died, he was like, "Lord, you see this, right?"

23So, at the end of the year, Syria rolled up on him, hitting Judah and Jerusalem, wrecking all the leaders and sending the loot to the king of Damascus.

24The Syrian squad came with a small crew, but the Lord handed them a massive army 'cause they ghosted their God. Judgment day for Joash, fr.

25After they bounced from him (he was super sick), his own crew plotted against him for Jehoiada's son and took him out in his bed. They buried him in David's city, but not with the kings.

26The peeps who conspired against him were Zabad, Shimeath's son from Ammon, and Jehozabad, Shimrith's son from Moab.

27About his sons, the heavy stuff he dealt with, and fixing up God's house, it's all in the kings' story. His son Amaziah took over.

1Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Zibiah of Beer–sheba.

2And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

3And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

4And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord.

5And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

6And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the Lord, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

7For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord did they bestow upon Baalim.

8And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the Lord.

9And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the Lord the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.

10And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

11Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

12And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the Lord.

13So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

14And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the Lord, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada.

15But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

16And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.

17Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.

18And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

19Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

20And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.

21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.

22Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it.

23And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria 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 the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.

24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.

25And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

26And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

27Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.