For the first time in Judah's history, the Temple in Jerusalem and its priesthood achieved national importance. Learn how your comment data is processed. One of the daughters of King Jehoram (Jehosheba) saw that her baby nephew, Joash was going to be killed along with the other princes. page on this website for ideas that are adaptable to any lesson. Click here for visual aids and story-telling methods. One very important thing that King Joash did was to repair the Temple of the Lord. Click here for “Joash, the Boy Who Became King” printables (Letter size-USA). Whenever Ahaziah did bad things, his mother used to say things like, “Good boy, Ahaziah, I like it when you do bad and mean things. Read about this in 2 Kings 12:19-21 and 2 Chronicles 24:17-27. He wanted Joash to be king some day. [22] He was succeeded as king by his son Amaziah (אמציה). He was assassinated by two of his servants, one of whom was the son of an Ammonite woman and the other the offspring of a Moabite (2 Chron. When Prince Joash’s aunt, Jehosheba, found out that Athaliah wanted to kill the king’s sons she quickly took Prince Joash away and hid him so that the Queen could not find him. He did not love God and he did not try to obey God’s laws. They knew that Joash was the true ruler of Israel. The temple was dirty and broken down. Then he gathered the people together and anointed Joash and put a crown on his head. 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The king was a willing tool in her hands, and she did everything in her power to spread the worship of the Phoenician gods, the Baal and Ashtarte in the Holy Land. 22:17–23). 24:26); for God said: "Let the descendants of the two ungrateful families chastise the ungrateful Joash" (Yalk., Ex. Mattan, the priest of Baal, was killed as altars to Baal were destroyed. King Joash ordered that the priests collect money and that workers were hired to fix the temple back up. (Thai) แสงกิตติคุณเล็กๆ This Little Light of Mine, Boy Jesus Visits the Temple_Family Bible Time, Jesus is Tempted in the Wilderness_Family Bible Time, Jesus and the Moneychangers_Family Bible Time, Healing of Nobleman’s Son_Family Bible Time, Man Lowered Through the Roof_Family Bible Time, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus_Family Bible Time. For calculation purposes, this should be taken as the Judean year beginning in Tishri of 836/835 BC, or more simply 836 BC. 2 He did what was pleasing to the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was alive. One of the reasons that King Ahaziah was so bad was because his mother, Queen Athaliah, had taught him to be bad when he was a little boy. She was so evil that she killed her own grandchildren so that they would not try to be kings or queens in her place. Little Joash was the only member of the royal family who was not killed. [15] The author of the Books of Chronicles criticizes this cruel act strongly. and tell the story from Joash’s point of view. He taught Joash all the things that he would need to know when he became king. Athaliah (the daughter of Israel’s King Ahab and Queen Jezebel) had married Jehoram (son of Judah’s King Jehoshaphat) to cement a treaty (2 Chronicles 18:1). 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While Queen Athaliah ruled, the temple was not only neglected but also damaged. The Jewish Encyclopedia. Check the Teaching Ideas page on this website for ideas that are adaptable to any lesson. Matthew climbed to the top of the highest slide on the playground. Play a few rounds of this and then talk about the noises that a baby makes and how difficult it would be to hide a baby. Joash, Where did Joash’s aunt hide him? William F. Albright has dated his reign to 837–800 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 835–796 BC.[3]. For Jehoash, the Scriptural data allow the narrowing of his accession to some time between Nisan 1 of 835 BC and the day before Tishri 1 of the same BC year. The tablet consists of 15 lines of Hebrew text inscribed on a piece of tabular black stone. There He Goes- Jesus on a Donkey Song, Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock Song. Instead, the king’s mother, Athaliah wanted to rule over the country of Judah. Answer: There are two kings with the name Joash (or Jehoash) in the Bible: one a king of Judah (reigned 835–796 BC) and the other a king of Israel (reigned 798–782 BC). in 797/796, or more simply, 797 BC. His death occurred at some time between Nisan 1 of 796 BC and the day before Tishri 1 of that BC year, i.e. 1 Sam. [16], According to the account in 2 Kings 12, when King Hazael of Syria marched on Jerusalem, Jehoash surrendered all the gold of the royal and sacred treasuries, thereby persuading him to call off his attack,[17] but according to the account in 2 Chronicles, the Syrian army "destroyed all the leaders of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus",[18] "execut[ing] judgment against Joash" and leaving him severely wounded.[10]. She worshipped idols and tried to get everyone else to worship idols too. The High Priest waited until Queen Athaliah was not around. The politics of Israel and Judah intertwine at this point. When Jehoida (the priest who had been like a father to him) died Joash began to take bad advice from his officials and began to allow idol worship in the kindom once again.