2 Chronicles 24
Joash repairs God’s temple & serves God
Joash was seven years old when he began his reign, and he reigned for forty years from Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah (from Beersheba). Joash did what was right in the Existing One's sight for as long as Jehoiada was priest. Jehoiada found two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.
Then Joash decided to restore the Existing One's temple. He gathered the priests and Levites and told them, "Go through Judah's cities and collect money from the Israelites every year so we can repair God's house. Get started right away." When the Levites failed to get started, the king asked Jehoiada, "Why aren't you forcing the Levites to collect the tax for God's tent?" That wicked woman Athaliah's sons had broken into God's house and used all of the Existing One's sacred items for the Baals.
So the king made it an order, and they set up a chest at the entrance of the Existing One's house. The mandate was proclaimed throughout Judah and Jerusalem to pay the Existing One the tax that Moses (God's servant) placed on Israel in the wilderness. All the princes and people celebrated and brought their tax money to the chest until they had finished. Whenever the chest became full, the king's secretary and the chief priest's administrator would come empty it. They did this day after day and collected an abundance of money. Then the king and Jehoiada hired masons, carpenters, bronze workers, and ironsmiths to repair the Existing One's house. They started working and repairing God's house to its proper condition and made it even stronger than before. When they finished the job, they returned the rest of the money, and the king and Jehoiada used it to make utensils, incense dishes, and gold and silver vessels for the services and burnt offerings. They regularly offered burnt offerings in the Existing One's house every day for as long as Jehoiada was priest.
Priest Jehoiada dies
But Jehoiada got older and eventually died at the old age of 130. They buried him in David's city with the kings because of how much good he had done in Israel and for God's house.
Joash abandons God & kills God’s prophet
After Jehoiada's death, Judah's princes came to pay homage to the king. The king listened to them, and they abandoned their forefathers's God the Existing One and his temple, and turning to the Asherim and the idols. Judah and Jerusalem recieved wrath for this guilt of theirs, but the Existing One sent prophets to bring them back to him. The prophets testified against them, but they paid no attention.
Then God's Spirit clothed Zechariah (Priest Jehoiada's son) and he proclaimed to the people, "God says, 'Why do you break the Existing One's orders so that you can't prosper? Because you have abandoned the Existing One, he has abandoned you.'" But they conspired against him, and by the king orders, they stoned him in the Existing One's temple courtyards. King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah's father (Jehoiada) had shown him, and instead killed his son. When he was dying, he said, "May the Existing One see and avenge!"
God abandons Joash & Syria defeats Judah
At the end of the year, the Syrian army attacked Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the princes and sent all their loot to Damascus's king. Even though the Syrian army only brought small numbers, the Existing One handed them a very large army, since Judah had abandoned their forefathers's God the Existing One. So they executed judgment on Joash.
When they left, they left him severely wounded. His servants conspired against him for killing Priest Jehoiada, and they killed him right there in his own bed. So he died, and they buried him in David's city, but they didn't bury him in the tomb with the other kings. The ones who conspired against him were Zabad (son of Shimeath the Ammonite) and Jehozabad (son of Shimrith the Moabite). Accounts of his sons, the many oracles against him, and the rebuilding of God's house are recorded in the book of Kings. And his son Amaziah reigned his place.