WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.667 Day 200 and 33 00:00:05.062 --> 00:00:10.552 when Athaliah, the mother of King, aah of Judah, learned that her son was dead. 00:00:11.152 --> 00:00:13.882 She began to destroy the rest of the royal family. 00:00:14.302 --> 00:00:20.722 But Aahs, sister Sah, the daughter of King Horam, took Ahe Isaiah's infant 00:00:20.722 --> 00:00:25.072 son, Joe Ash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king's 00:00:25.072 --> 00:00:26.992 children who were about to be killed. 00:00:27.757 --> 00:00:31.927 She put Joe Ash and his nurse in a bedroom, and they hid him from 00:00:31.927 --> 00:00:34.747 Athaliah so the child was not murdered. 00:00:35.767 --> 00:00:39.247 Joe Ash remained hidden in the temple of the Lord for six years 00:00:39.367 --> 00:00:41.377 while Athaliah ruled over the land. 00:00:42.277 --> 00:00:46.087 In the seventh year of Elia's Reign, Jehoiada, the priest 00:00:46.207 --> 00:00:50.797 summoned the commanders, the CARite mercenaries, and the palace guards 00:00:50.947 --> 00:00:52.387 to come to the temple of the Lord. 00:00:52.957 --> 00:00:56.707 He made a solemn pact with them and made them swear an oath of 00:00:56.707 --> 00:00:58.807 loyalty there in the Lord's temple. 00:00:59.317 --> 00:01:05.077 Then he showed them the king's son, Jo Hollah told them This is what you must do. 00:01:05.917 --> 00:01:08.647 A third of you who are on duty on the Sabbath are to 00:01:08.647 --> 00:01:10.417 guard the royal palace itself. 00:01:11.137 --> 00:01:16.057 Another third of you are to stand guard at the sewer gate and the final third 00:01:16.297 --> 00:01:18.427 must stand guard behind the palace guard. 00:01:19.357 --> 00:01:21.817 These three groups will all guard the palace. 00:01:22.387 --> 00:01:25.807 The other two units who are off duty on the Sabbath must stand 00:01:25.807 --> 00:01:30.307 guard for the king at the Lord's temple form a bodyguard around the 00:01:30.312 --> 00:01:32.587 king and keep your weapons in hand. 00:01:33.097 --> 00:01:35.497 Kill anyone who tries to break through. 00:01:35.887 --> 00:01:37.957 Stay with the king wherever he goes. 00:01:38.947 --> 00:01:41.317 So the commanders did everything as Jo Jolla does. 00:01:41.317 --> 00:01:45.127 The priest ordered, the commanders, took charge of the men reporting 00:01:45.127 --> 00:01:48.457 for duty, that Sabbath, as well as those who are going off duty. 00:01:49.177 --> 00:01:51.307 They brought them all to Jahoda, the priest. 00:01:51.667 --> 00:01:55.207 He supplied them with the spears and small shields that had once 00:01:55.207 --> 00:01:58.597 belonged to King David and were stored in the temple of the Lord. 00:01:59.647 --> 00:02:03.637 The palace guards stationed themselves around the king with their weapons ready. 00:02:04.297 --> 00:02:07.747 They formed a line from the south side of the temple around to the 00:02:07.747 --> 00:02:10.087 north side and all around the altar. 00:02:11.167 --> 00:02:17.197 Then Jo Hoda brought out Joss the king's son, placed the crown on his head and 00:02:17.197 --> 00:02:19.417 presented him with a copy of God's laws. 00:02:20.212 --> 00:02:22.372 They anointed him and proclaimed him. 00:02:22.372 --> 00:02:27.352 King and everyone clapped their hands and shouted, long live the king. 00:02:28.222 --> 00:02:31.462 When Athaliah heard the noise made by the palace guards and the 00:02:31.462 --> 00:02:35.002 people, she hurried to the Lord's temple to see what was happening. 00:02:35.332 --> 00:02:40.282 When she arrived, she saw the newly crowned king standing in his place 00:02:40.282 --> 00:02:44.272 of authority by the pillar, as was the custom at times of coronation. 00:02:45.217 --> 00:02:48.697 The commanders and trumpeters were surrounding him, and people 00:02:48.697 --> 00:02:52.327 from all over the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. 00:02:53.317 --> 00:02:59.137 When Elias saw all this, she tore her clothes, despair, and shouted, treason. 00:02:59.437 --> 00:03:00.097 Treason. 00:03:01.537 --> 00:03:05.167 Then Jo Jolla to the priest, ordered the commanders who were in charge of 00:03:05.167 --> 00:03:09.427 the troops take her to the soldiers in front of the temple and kill 00:03:09.427 --> 00:03:10.987 anyone who tries to rescue her. 00:03:11.677 --> 00:03:15.517 For the priest had said she must not be killed in the temple of the Lord. 00:03:16.507 --> 00:03:20.947 So they seized her and led her out to the gate where horses enter the palace 00:03:20.947 --> 00:03:22.987 grounds and she was killed there. 00:03:23.977 --> 00:03:28.327 Then Jo Joah made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people 00:03:28.807 --> 00:03:30.487 that they would be the Lord's people. 00:03:31.027 --> 00:03:34.627 He also made a covenant between the king and the people, and all the 00:03:34.632 --> 00:03:38.467 people of the land went over to the temple of Baal and tore it down. 00:03:39.187 --> 00:03:44.767 They demolished the altars and smashed the idols to pieces, and they killed matton. 00:03:44.977 --> 00:03:49.567 The priest of Baal in front of the altars, jehoiada, the priest, stationed 00:03:49.567 --> 00:03:51.127 guards at the temple of the Lord. 00:03:51.757 --> 00:03:56.137 Then the commanders, the CARite mercenaries, the palace guards and 00:03:56.137 --> 00:03:59.947 all the people of the land escorted the king from the temple of the Lord. 00:04:00.517 --> 00:04:04.207 They went through the gate of the guards and into the palace, and the 00:04:04.207 --> 00:04:06.727 king took his seat on the royal throne. 00:04:07.552 --> 00:04:13.222 So all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was peaceful because Athaliah 00:04:13.222 --> 00:04:15.352 had been killed at the King's palace. 00:04:18.202 --> 00:04:22.462 Joe Ash was seven years old when he became King Joe. 00:04:22.462 --> 00:04:25.792 Ash began to rule over Judah in the seventh year of King 00:04:25.792 --> 00:04:27.262 G Hughes Reign in Israel. 00:04:27.922 --> 00:04:30.382 He reigned in Jerusalem 40 years. 00:04:31.192 --> 00:04:33.682 His mother was Zibi from Biers Shiba. 00:04:34.567 --> 00:04:35.497 All his life. 00:04:35.737 --> 00:04:39.697 Jo Ash did what was pleasing in the Lord's sight because Jehoiada, 00:04:39.697 --> 00:04:45.127 the priest instructed him yet even so, he did not destroy the pagan 00:04:45.127 --> 00:04:50.497 shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there. 00:04:52.417 --> 00:04:57.757 One day, king Jo Ash said to the priests, collect all the money brought as a 00:04:57.757 --> 00:04:59.617 sacred offering to the Lord's temple. 00:05:00.187 --> 00:05:04.552 Whether it is a regular assessment, A payment of vows or a voluntary 00:05:04.552 --> 00:05:09.082 gift, let the priests take some of that money to pay for whatever 00:05:09.082 --> 00:05:10.702 repairs are needed at the temple. 00:05:11.392 --> 00:05:15.652 But by the 23rd year of Jo Ash's reign, the priests still 00:05:15.652 --> 00:05:17.032 had not repaired the temple. 00:05:17.752 --> 00:05:22.522 So King Jo Ash called for JE Jota and the other priests and ask them, 00:05:22.972 --> 00:05:24.712 why haven't you repaired the temple? 00:05:25.252 --> 00:05:29.032 Don't use any more money for your own needs from now on. 00:05:29.302 --> 00:05:31.582 It must all be spent on temple repairs. 00:05:32.497 --> 00:05:36.607 So the priests agreed not to accept any more money from the people, and 00:05:36.607 --> 00:05:40.777 they also agreed to let others take responsibility for repairing the temple. 00:05:41.617 --> 00:05:47.287 Then jehoiada the priest board a hole in the lid of a large chest and set it 00:05:47.287 --> 00:05:50.917 on the right hand side of the altar at the entrance of the temple of the Lord. 00:05:51.742 --> 00:05:54.772 The priests guarding the entrance, put all of the people's 00:05:54.772 --> 00:05:56.542 contributions into the chest. 00:05:56.932 --> 00:06:01.612 Whenever the chest became full, the court secretary and the high priest counted 00:06:01.612 --> 00:06:05.032 the money that had been brought to the Lord's temple and put it into bags. 00:06:05.782 --> 00:06:09.472 Then they gave the money to the construction supervisors who used it 00:06:09.472 --> 00:06:14.272 to pay the people working on the Lord's temple, the carpenters, the builders, 00:06:14.632 --> 00:06:16.432 the Masons, and the stone cutters. 00:06:17.512 --> 00:06:21.562 They also used the money to buy the timber and the finished stone needed 00:06:21.562 --> 00:06:25.402 for repairing the Lord's temple and they paid any other expenses 00:06:25.402 --> 00:06:27.202 related to the temple's restoration. 00:06:28.102 --> 00:06:32.572 The money brought to the temple was not used for making silver bowls, 00:06:32.902 --> 00:06:37.372 lamp snuffers, basins, trumpets, or other articles of gold or 00:06:37.372 --> 00:06:39.112 silver for the temple of the Lord. 00:06:40.012 --> 00:06:43.432 It was paid to the workmen who used it for the temple repairs. 00:06:44.482 --> 00:06:48.952 No accounting of this money was required from the construction supervisors because 00:06:48.952 --> 00:06:51.022 they were honest and trustworthy men. 00:06:51.592 --> 00:06:55.912 However, the money that was contributed for guilt offerings and sin offerings 00:06:56.152 --> 00:06:57.982 was not brought into the Lord's temple. 00:06:58.612 --> 00:07:00.952 It was given to the priests for their own use. 00:07:02.482 --> 00:07:08.902 About this time, king Hazael of Aram went to war against Gath and captured it. 00:07:09.502 --> 00:07:11.632 Then he turned to attack Jerusalem. 00:07:12.082 --> 00:07:17.992 King Joe Ash collected all the sacred objects that Jehoshaphat, Horam, and Eiah. 00:07:18.082 --> 00:07:23.242 The previous kings of Judah had dedicated along with what he himself had dedicated. 00:07:23.992 --> 00:07:28.702 He sent them all to Hazael, along with all the gold in the treasuries of the 00:07:28.702 --> 00:07:30.802 Lord's temple and the Royal Palace. 00:07:31.262 --> 00:07:34.192 So Hazael Zeel called off his attack on Jerusalem. 00:07:35.917 --> 00:07:40.777 The rest of the events in Joe Ash's Reign and everything he did are recorded in the 00:07:40.777 --> 00:07:42.667 book of the history of the Kings of Judah. 00:07:43.537 --> 00:07:48.007 Joe Ash's officers plotted against him and assassinated him at 00:07:48.007 --> 00:07:50.197 Beth Milow on the road to Silla. 00:07:50.917 --> 00:07:56.077 The assassins were Joes Akar, son of Shimmy and Jeh Badd son of 00:07:56.077 --> 00:07:58.957 Schumer, both trusted advisors. 00:07:59.857 --> 00:08:03.097 Joe Ash was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. 00:08:03.982 --> 00:08:07.252 Then his son Amiah, became the next King 00:08:10.252 --> 00:08:15.442 Jehoahaz son of g Hu began to rule over Israel in the 23rd year 00:08:15.442 --> 00:08:17.302 of King Jo Ash's reign in Judah. 00:08:18.052 --> 00:08:23.692 He reigned in Samaria 17 years, but he did what was evil in the Lord's sight. 00:08:24.352 --> 00:08:29.212 He followed the example of Jar Boham, son of Neba, continuing the sins that 00:08:29.217 --> 00:08:31.132 Jar Boham had led Israel to commit. 00:08:31.792 --> 00:08:37.732 So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and he allowed King Zeel of Aram and his 00:08:37.732 --> 00:08:40.702 son Ben Hayad to defeat them repeatedly. 00:08:42.502 --> 00:08:47.212 Then Jehoahaz prayed for the Lord's help, and the Lord heard his prayer 00:08:47.752 --> 00:08:51.712 for he could see how severely the King of Aram was oppressing Israel. 00:08:52.612 --> 00:08:57.262 So the Lord provided someone to rescue the Israelites from the tyranny of the Ians. 00:08:58.102 --> 00:09:00.142 Then Israel lived in safety again. 00:09:00.562 --> 00:09:04.672 As they had in former days, but they continued to sin. 00:09:05.302 --> 00:09:10.372 Following the evil example of Jarre Boem, they also allowed the Asher 00:09:10.377 --> 00:09:12.832 Pole in Samaria to remain standing. 00:09:13.492 --> 00:09:18.442 Finally, Jehoahaz's army was reduced to 50 chariot tears, 10 00:09:18.447 --> 00:09:21.052 chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. 00:09:21.892 --> 00:09:26.362 The king of Arum had killed the others, trampling them like dust under his feet. 00:09:28.192 --> 00:09:32.812 The rest of the events in Jehoahaz's Reign, everything he did and the extent 00:09:32.812 --> 00:09:37.102 of his power are recorded in the book of the history of the Kings of Israel. 00:09:38.032 --> 00:09:40.972 When Jehoahaz died, he was buried in Samaria. 00:09:41.722 --> 00:09:44.872 Then his son, JE Joash, became the next king. 00:09:47.482 --> 00:09:53.332 Je Joash, son of Jehoahaz began to rule over Israel in the 37th year 00:09:53.362 --> 00:09:55.252 of King Joe Ash's Reign in Judah. 00:09:55.852 --> 00:10:01.342 He reigned in Samaria 16 years, but he did what was evil in the Lord's sight. 00:10:01.762 --> 00:10:07.162 He refused to turn from the sins that Jar BOM's son of Neba had led Israel to commit 00:10:08.692 --> 00:10:13.342 the rest of the events in Jeha Ash's reign and everything he did in including the 00:10:13.342 --> 00:10:19.162 extent of his power and his war with King Amiah of Judah are recorded in the book 00:10:19.162 --> 00:10:20.872 of the history of the Kings of Israel. 00:10:21.727 --> 00:10:25.987 When Jeh Ash died, he was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. 00:10:26.827 --> 00:10:30.697 Then his son, JE Boham II became the next king. 00:10:32.467 --> 00:10:35.317 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:10:35.467 --> 00:10:36.667 Thank you for joining us.