Joash

• Reign of Joashc. 879 BC

Jehoash· Joash

Father

Ahaziah

Mother

Zibiah

Spouse

Jehoaddan

Children

Amaziah

• יְהוֹאָשׁ·Jehoashmeans “fire of the Lord”
• יוֹאָשׁ·Joash

Includes 8 verses that refer to Joash without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. 2 Kings 11:2יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
   But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.
2. 2 Kings 11:3Referred to, not named
   And Joash remained hidden with his nurse in the house of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
3. 2 Kings 11:21יְהוֹאָשׁ · Jehoash
   Joash was seven years old when he became king.
4. 2 Kings 12:1יְהוֹאָשׁ · Jehoash
   In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
5. 2 Kings 12:2יְהוֹאָשׁ · Jehoash
   And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.
6. 2 Kings 12:4יְהוֹאָשׁ · Jehoash
   Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
7. 2 Kings 12:6יְהוֹאָשׁ · Jehoash
   By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.
8. 2 Kings 12:7יְהוֹאָשׁ · Jehoash
   So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”
9. 2 Kings 12:18יְהוֹאָשׁ · Jehoash
   So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
10. 2 Kings 12:19יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    As for the rest of the acts of Joash, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
11. 2 Kings 12:20יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    And the servants of Joash rose up and formed a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla.
12. 2 Kings 12:21Referred to, not named
    His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer struck him down, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David, and his son Amaziah reigned in his place.
13. 2 Kings 13:1יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    In the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash son of Ahaziah over Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria seventeen years.
14. 2 Kings 13:10יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    In the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Joash over Judah, Jehoash son of Jehoahaz became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.
15. 2 Kings 14:1יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    In the second year of the reign of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz over Israel, Amaziah son of Joash became king of Judah.
16. 2 Kings 14:3יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.
17. 2 Kings 14:13יְהוֹאָשׁ · Jehoash
    There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
18. 2 Kings 14:17יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.
19. 2 Kings 14:23יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years.
20. 1 Chronicles 3:11יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
21. 1 Chronicles 3:12Referred to, not named
    Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
22. 2 Chronicles 22:11יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.
23. 2 Chronicles 22:12Referred to, not named
    And Joash remained hidden with them in the house of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
24. 2 Chronicles 24:1יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
25. 2 Chronicles 24:2יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
26. 2 Chronicles 24:3Referred to, not named
    Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
27. 2 Chronicles 24:4יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    Some time later, Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.
28. 2 Chronicles 24:22יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
29. 2 Chronicles 24:23Referred to, not named
    In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.
30. 2 Chronicles 24:24יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash.
31. 2 Chronicles 24:25Referred to, not named
    And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
32. 2 Chronicles 24:27Referred to, not named
    The accounts of the sons of Joash and the many pronouncements about him, and of the restoration of the house of God, are indeed written in the Treatise of the Book of the Kings. And his son Amaziah reigned in his place.
33. 2 Chronicles 25:23יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
34. 2 Chronicles 25:25יוֹאָשׁ · Joash
    Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.