# Joash - The Book of 2 Chronicles

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 19 Dec 2023, 12 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 112. Tune in to our latest podcast episode where we journey through a fascinating story from 2 Chronicles in the Bible, centered around King Joash of Judah. Learn how, at just seven years old, Joash became king and was guided by the high priest Jehoiada to follow God's ways. We'll explore Joash's ambitious project to repair the Temple of the Lord, his innovative solution to fund the repairs, and the prosperity that followed. But there's a twist! After Jehoiada's death, see how Joash's decisions lead Judah astray, and discover the dramatic consequences that follow. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Joash did that which was right in the Lord's eyes
[0:04] Speaker 1: all his days, in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. However,
[0:10] Speaker 1: the high places were not taken away. The people still
[0:14] Speaker 1: sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. 2 Kings 12,
[0:21] Speaker 1: 2-3 Dear God, we want to obey you in the
[0:24] Speaker 1: little things and in the big things. We know you
[0:28] Speaker 1: have big plans in store for us, so help us
[0:31] Speaker 1: to do what's right, even when no one is watching.
[0:35] Speaker 1: Teach us to live in a way that honors you.
[0:38] Speaker 1: We want to hear you say, well done. In Jesus'
[0:42] Speaker 1: name I pray, amen.
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[1:20] Speaker 3: In our last story, Elisha sent a young prophet to
[1:24] Speaker 3: anoint Jihyo as king. Jehu immediately went out, driving his
[1:29] Speaker 3: chariot like a madman, and killed Joram and Ahaziah. In
[1:34] Speaker 3: this story, we learn about Joash and how he did
[1:38] Speaker 3: right in the eyes of the Lord, as inspired by
[1:42] Speaker 3: 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles.
[1:48] Speaker 1: Hi there, Julia Sadler back again with another story from
[1:52] Speaker 1: the Kids Bible in a Year podcast. being faithful in
[1:56] Speaker 1: the little things.
[1:57] Speaker 4: That's what we're.
[1:58] Speaker 1: Talking about today. Did you ever think you would learn
[2:02] Speaker 1: something so important from a seven-year-old king? Let's jump in
[2:08] Speaker 1: and see what this King Joash is all about.
[2:14] Speaker 3: When Joash became the king of Judah, he was seven
[2:18] Speaker 3: years old. Jehoiada, the high priest, taught the king and
[2:22] Speaker 3: guided him into living a life that was obedient to God.
[2:26] Speaker 3: For as long as Jehoiada lived, Joash was obedient to
[2:29] Speaker 3: the ways of the Lord. When Joash grew older, he
[2:33] Speaker 3: thought it would be a good idea to fix up
[2:35] Speaker 3: the temple of the Lord. Athaliah, Joash's grandmother, had taken
[2:40] Speaker 3: everything that had some value and used it to worship
[2:43] Speaker 3: Baal in her time as ruler. Joash decided to assign
[2:48] Speaker 3: priests and Levites to go throughout Judah and collect money
[2:53] Speaker 3: for temple repairs. Years before this, Moses had provided for
[2:57] Speaker 3: temple repairs by imposing a tax. When they started to
[3:01] Speaker 3: collect money for the repairs, they noticed that the repairs
[3:04] Speaker 3: weren't happening. Joash realized that the money was being put
[3:08] Speaker 3: into administration costs and for things that the priests thought
[3:12] Speaker 3: were important, not the temple repairs. Joash decided that the
[3:18] Speaker 3: priests and Levites were not fit to be in charge
[3:21] Speaker 3: of the temple repair. Joash decided to do something different.
[3:25] Speaker 3: He told his men to put a large offering box
[3:29] Speaker 3: at the temple gate. He told them that the people
[3:32] Speaker 3: were to bring their money for the temple repairs and
[3:34] Speaker 3: put it in the box. The people of Judah thought
[3:37] Speaker 3: this was a good idea, so they brought their offerings
[3:41] Speaker 3: and placed them in the box. When it was full,
[3:45] Speaker 3: the money in the box was given to the repairmen
[3:48] Speaker 3: This provided for the repairmen, allowing them to do their
[3:51] Speaker 3: job and do it well. They were all honest men,
[3:55] Speaker 3: and because of this, Joash didn't need them to tell
[3:59] Speaker 3: him how they were spending the money. Even after they
[4:02] Speaker 3: finished the repairs on the temple, the people of Judah
[4:05] Speaker 3: kept giving them money. The extra money was used to
[4:09] Speaker 3: make different tools of worship. The people of Judah started
[4:13] Speaker 3: coming to the temple of the Lord regularly to worship God.
[4:16] Speaker 3: Jehoiada was still alive while all this happened. When he
[4:20] Speaker 3: was 130 years old, he died, but he had lived
[4:25] Speaker 3: a good life. He served his king, his God, and
[4:30] Speaker 3: the people of Judah. After Jehoiada died, Joash met with
[4:35] Speaker 3: different leaders of Judah. They told him that they wanted
[4:38] Speaker 3: to take Judah in a different direction. Joash let them
[4:42] Speaker 3: make changes And as that happened, the people of Judah
[4:45] Speaker 3: stopped going to the temple to worship God. Instead of
[4:49] Speaker 3: worshiping God, they turned to false idols and goddesses. The
[4:55] Speaker 3: Lord sent prophets to warn the people of Judah. At
[4:59] Speaker 3: this time, the son of Jehoiada, Zechariah, was now a priest.
[5:04] Speaker 3: God told him to warn all the people of Judah.
[5:08] Speaker 3: So he did. So the son stood before them and said,
[5:12] Speaker 3: If you leave the Lord, the Lord will leave you.
[5:16] Speaker 3: The people of Judah were made upset by this statement,
[5:20] Speaker 3: and they wanted to kill the priest. Finally, Joash decided
[5:25] Speaker 3: that he would be stoned to death. He did this
[5:28] Speaker 3: despite knowing that the priest was Jehoiada's son. Jehoiada had
[5:33] Speaker 3: saved his life and helped him so much. God let
[5:38] Speaker 3: a small Syrian army defeat the superior army of Judah.
[5:42] Speaker 3: and conquer Jerusalem. Many of the Jewish leaders were killed.
[5:46] Speaker 3: Joash was severely injured, and the Syrians took everything they
[5:50] Speaker 3: could from Judah. When they left, some people went into
[5:54] Speaker 3: Joash's bedroom and killed him. Joash was king for 40 years.
[6:00] Speaker 3: The people refused to bury him by the other kings
[6:04] Speaker 3: because they had betrayed Jehoiada's sons.
[6:11] Speaker 1: Hold on.
[6:13] Speaker 4: Did we hear that right? A seven-year-old king? That's right.
[6:18] Speaker 4: Because when God.
[6:19] Speaker 1: Chooses to use someone, they might be two or they
[6:23] Speaker 1: might be 100. He always knows what he's doing. The
[6:28] Speaker 1: Bible tells us that little Joash was king for 40 years.
[6:33] Speaker 1: And overall, he did a great job following God. In
[6:37] Speaker 1: today's story alone, we see how he worked hard to
[6:42] Speaker 1: repair God's temple, treat people kindly, and did everything God
[6:47] Speaker 1: wanted him to do.
[6:49] Speaker 4: Well, almost everything.
[6:53] Speaker 1: Today's passage says that although Joash did what was right
[6:57] Speaker 1: in God's eyes, he failed to do one thing.
[7:01] Speaker 4: He did not remove.
[7:02] Speaker 1: The high places of idol worship. High places were shrines
[7:08] Speaker 1: or statues, dedicated to a particular god. Since these were
[7:13] Speaker 1: not real gods and they were instead idols made by people,
[7:17] Speaker 1: Joash should not have ignored this. Have you ever almost
[7:23] Speaker 1: or mostly obeyed something you were asked to do?
[7:28] Speaker 4: How did that go?
[7:30] Speaker 1: When God tells us to do or not do something,
[7:33] Speaker 1: he wants our total and complete obedience.
[7:37] Speaker 4: If you are just obeying.
[7:39] Speaker 1: A little bit of what you know to do, you're
[7:41] Speaker 1: not really obeying at all. You see, Joash lived with
[7:46] Speaker 1: a high priest named Jehoiada, and he was a wonderful teacher.
[7:51] Speaker 1: He showed Joash the ways of God and had a
[7:54] Speaker 1: lot to do with making him into a great king.
[7:58] Speaker 1: But some believe that after Jehoiada died, Joash stopped following
[8:03] Speaker 1: God and started doing things his own way. He even
[8:06] Speaker 1: allowed his people to worship false gods and idols. And
[8:11] Speaker 1: pretty soon, no one was coming to the temple to
[8:14] Speaker 1: worship God. Even after God sent prophets like Zechariah to
[8:19] Speaker 1: warn his people, they continued in their sin. So much
[8:23] Speaker 1: so that they even wanted to kill the very prophets
[8:26] Speaker 1: who were trying to save them. And things just kept
[8:30] Speaker 1: getting worse. When Hazael, king of Syria, threatened to attack Judah,
[8:36] Speaker 1: Joash offered him some of the special sacred items from
[8:40] Speaker 1: God's temple. Hello, Joash, what are you thinking? Giving God
[8:47] Speaker 1: special holy treasures to an evil king? Well, we can
[8:52] Speaker 1: give Joash a hard time all day long, but the
[8:55] Speaker 1: truth is, we're often just like him. Because Joash started
[9:00] Speaker 1: ignoring God's judgments, Little by little, for instance, by letting
[9:05] Speaker 1: God's people set up high places of idol worship, when
[9:10] Speaker 1: it came to the big things, it was pretty easy
[9:13] Speaker 1: to disobey.
[9:13] Speaker 3: This is why.
[9:15] Speaker 1: The little things are so important. What do we mean
[9:19] Speaker 1: by the little things? Here are some examples. Picking up
[9:23] Speaker 1: your trash. Telling the truth. When you sneak a cookie.
[9:29] Speaker 1: Giving someone a compliment or brushing your teeth right when
[9:32] Speaker 1: you're told to? Even though some of those things seem small,
[9:38] Speaker 1: the more we practice doing the right thing, the easier
[9:41] Speaker 1: it will be when big things come our way.
[9:44] Speaker 4: And they will.
[9:46] Speaker 1: In Matthew 25, Jesus tells the story of a master
[9:50] Speaker 1: who gives his servant five talents. The servant then makes
[9:55] Speaker 1: five more talents and brings it to his master. The
[9:58] Speaker 1: master then said, that because you have been faithful in
[10:02] Speaker 1: the little things i will now make you ruler over
[10:06] Speaker 1: great things it's a great reminder to be obedient and
[10:10] Speaker 1: all god tells us to do he might have a
[10:13] Speaker 1: pretty big job for you later in your life and
[10:16] Speaker 1: you want to be ready don't you Well, as today's
[10:20] Speaker 1: story ends, the Syrians have taken everything from Jerusalem and
[10:25] Speaker 1: Joash has died. I hope you'll come back next time
[10:28] Speaker 1: to hear all about his son, the next king. Do
[10:33] Speaker 1: you think he will be a king that follows God?
[10:36] Speaker 4: We'll find out soon. Thanks for listening today. And let's
[10:40] Speaker 4: say it like we mean it.
[10:41] Speaker 3: Ready? One, two, three.
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