The Ironic End of Joash in Chronicles - Fontes - Lutheran School of ...

Z 0 The rest of the acts ofJoash and all that hedid, are they not writtenin the Book ofthe Annals of the Kings of Judah?"His servants rose up and initiated aconspiracy against him, and they smote25 When they went away from him, leavinghim severely wounded, his servants24. Williamson (1 and 2 Chronicles, 325) believes that the Chronicler was dependent onan extrabiblical source for his version of the Aramaean War, but Japhet (I and IIChronicles, 851-52) argues convincingly that the Chronicler modeled this account on hisown narrative about Shishak's campaign (2 Chron. 12:2-12).125conspired against him because of theviolence done to the son 26 of Jehoiada thepriest, and they killed him on his bed. Theyburied him in the city of David, but theydid not bury him with the kings.22 1t was Jozabad 21 the son of Shimeath andJehozabad son of Shomer, his servants,who struck him down so that he died. Theyburied him with his fathers in the city ofDavid. Amaziah his son ruled in his stead.26 These are the ones who conspired againsthim: Zabad the son of Shimeath theAmmonitess and Jehozabad the son ofShimrith the Moabitess.27 As for his sons, the abundance of oraclesagainst him, and the rebuilding of thehouse of God, behold they are written inthe Midrash of the Book of Kings.Amaziah his son ruled in his stead.The respective concluding summaries in vv. 20 and 27 of Kings and Chronicles areworded differently and have a divergent location, one before and one after the death of