1Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 2Jehoash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

4Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house, 5let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”

6But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house. 7Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”

8The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house. 9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it. 10When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house. 11They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on Yahweh’s house, 12and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. 13But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house; 14for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it. 15Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. 16The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.

17Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 18Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.

19Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. 21For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

Person

Uriah

Also called Urias

Spouse Bathsheba

Biography | Hershel Wayne House

Matthew's genealogy departs from its pattern in reference to Solomon in Matthew 1:6 by adding the words "by her who had been Uriah's wife."¹ The name Uriah is found in biblical Hebrew as אוּרִיָּה (uriyyah) and אוּרִיָּהוּ (uriyyahu), and is the name of five or six persons in the Old Testament.² Within this number is Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba (daughter of Eliam 2 Sam 11:3, and possibly granddaughter of Ahithophel, 2 Sam 23:34). He also bears the name "the Hittite," though this does not mean that he descended from the Hittites of Anatolia (with capital in northwestern Asia Minor at Hattusa). Rather, he may be from the Neo-Hittites found in northern Syria, who are survivors of the collapse of the Hittite empire.

The late professor of Hittite at the University of Chicago, Harry Hoffner, argues regarding the term Hittite that this

designation need not mark him as descended from the Anatolian Hittites of the second millennium bc. It may merely mean that he—or less likely, an ancestor—came from one of the Neo-Hittite states in northern Syria, where vestiges of Hittite civilization survived the collapse of the empire. Uriah was one of the warriors in David’s elite force of the “Thirty” (2 Sam 23:39; 1 Chr 11:41).³

Attention will be given to the escapade between David and Bathsheba, and the murder of Uriah in 2 Samuel 11. ↩︎
Harry Hoffner, 1 & 2 Samuel, Evangelical Exegetical Commentary, H. Wayne House, Gen. Ed. ↩︎
Ibid. ↩︎

Person & place data: Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse (Viz.Bible), CC BY-SA 4.0.