2 Kings 11–19

^aAnd when ^bAthaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. ²But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stale him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. ³And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.

⁴And the seventh year ^cJehoiada sent and fet the rulers over hundreds, with the ^dcaptains and the ^eguard, and brought them to 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 shewed them the king’s son. ⁵And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you ^fthat enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house; ⁶and a third part shall be at the gate of ^gSur; and a third part at the gate behind the ^eguard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down. ⁷And two parts of all you ^fthat go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king. ⁸And ye shall ^hcompass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within ⁱthe ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as ^jhe goeth out and as he cometh in. ⁹And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men ^fthat were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. ¹⁰And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and ^kshields, that were in the temple of the Lord. ¹¹And the ^eguard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple. ¹²And he brought forth the king’s son, and put ^lthe crown upon him, and gave him ^mthe Testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapt their hands, and said, God save the king.

¹³And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord. ¹⁴And when she looked, behold, the king stood by ⁿa pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and ^oblew with trumpets: and Athaliah ^prent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. ¹⁵But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, ^qthe officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without ⁱthe ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord. ¹⁶And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which ^rthe horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain.

¹⁷And ^sJehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people; ^tbetween the king also and the people. ¹⁸And all the people of the land went into the ^uhouse of Baal, and brake it down; ^xhis altars and his images brake they in pieces throughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord. ¹⁹And he took ^ythe rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way ^zof the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. ²⁰And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house. ²¹Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

XII.In the seventh year of Jehu ^aJehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of ^bBeer-sheba. ²And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. ³But ^cthe high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. ⁴And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things ^dthat is brought into the house of the Lord, even ^ethe money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that ^fcometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the Lord, ⁵let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them ^grepair the breaches of the house, ^hwheresoever any breach shall be found. ⁶But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash ⁱthe priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. ⁷Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. ⁸And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. ⁹But Jehoiada the priest took ^ka chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord. ¹⁰And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the ^lhigh priest came up, and they put up ^min bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord. ¹¹And they gave the money, being told, ⁿinto the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord, ¹²ⁿand to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. ¹³Howbeit ^othere were not made for the house of the Lord ^pbowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord: ¹⁴but they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord. ¹⁵Moreover ^qthey reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully. ¹⁶The ^rtrespass money and ^ssin money was not brought into the house of the Lord: ^tit was the priests’.

¹⁷Then ^uHazael king of Syria went up, and fought against ^xGath, and took it: and Hazael ^yset his face to go up to Jerusalem. ¹⁸And Jehoash king of Judah ^ztook all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicate, and ^ahis own hallowed things, 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 Syria: and ^bhe went away from Jerusalem. ¹⁹And 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? ²⁰And ^chis servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to ^dSilla. ²¹For 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.

XIII.In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. ²And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^awhich made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. ³And ^bthe anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of ^cHazael king of Syria, and into the hand of ^dBen-hadad the son of Hazael, ^eall their days. ⁴And Jehoahaz ^fbesought the Lord, and the Lord hearkened unto him: for ^ghe saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. ⁵(^hAnd the Lord gave Israel a ⁱsaviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in ^ktheir tents, as beforetime. ⁶Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, ^awho made Israel sin, but walked therein: and ^lthere remained the grove also in Samaria.) ⁷Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust ^mby threshing. ⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ⁹And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁰In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years. ¹¹And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^awho made Israel sin: but he walked therein. ¹²ⁿAnd the rest of the acts of Joash, and ^oall that he did, and his might ^pwherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ¹³And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

¹⁴Now ^qElisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O ^rmy father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. ¹⁵And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. ¹⁶And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he…