2 Chronicles 24 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ Yo’ash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Tsiḇ

² And Yo’ash did what was right in the eyes of יהוה  all the days of Yehoyaḏ

³ And Yehoyaḏ

⁴ And after this it came to be that Yo’ash set his heart on restoring the House of יהוה.

⁵ And he gathered the priests and the Lĕ

⁶ And the sovereign called Yehoyaḏ

⁷ For the sons of Athalyahu, that wrong woman, had broken into the House of Elohim, and had also prepared all the set-apart vessels of the House of יהוה  to the Baʽ

⁸ So the sovereign commanded and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the House of יהוה,

⁹ and made it known in Yehuḏ

¹⁰ And all the rulers and all the people rejoiced, and they brought in and put them into the chest to completion.

¹¹ And it came to be, at that time, when the chest was brought to the sovereign’s official by the hand of the Lĕ

¹² And the sovereign and Yehoyaḏ

¹³ And the workmen laboured, and the work of restoration progressed in their hands, and they established the House of Elohim to its proper form and strengthened it.

¹⁴ And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the silver before the sovereign and Yehoyaḏ

¹⁵ And Yehoyaḏ

¹⁶ And they buried him in the City of Dawiḏ

¹⁷ And after the death of Yehoyaḏ

¹⁸ and they forsook the House of יהוה  Elohim of their fathers, and served the Ashĕ

¹⁹ And He sent prophets to them, to bring them back to יהוה. And they witnessed against them, but they did not listen.

²⁰ Then the Spirit of Elohim came upon Zeḵ

²¹ And they conspired against him, and at the command of the sovereign they stoned him with stones in the courtyard of the House of יהוה.

²² Thus Yo’ash the sovereign did not remember the kindness which Yehoyaḏ

²³ And it came to be, at the turn of the year, that the army of Aram came up against him. And they came into Yehuḏ

²⁴ For the army of Aram came with few men, but יהוה  gave a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken יהוה  Elohim of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Yo’ash.

²⁵ And when they had withdrawn from him – for they left him very sick – his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Yehoyaḏ

²⁶ And these are the ones who conspired against him: Zaḇ

²⁷ As to his sons, and the many words about him, and the rebuilding of the House of Elohim, see, they are written in the commentary of the book of the sovereigns. And Amatsyahu his son reigned in his place.