Case File: Joash of Judah

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Subject Erac. 835 BC

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Case FileKGS-0011-J

ClearanceCOVENANT VII

COVENANT CLASSIFIEDSEALED UNDER OATH

DECLASSIFIED

Name	JOASH OF JUDAH
Aliases	THE BOY KING / HIDDEN FROM ATHALIAH / WHO REPAIRED THE TEMPLE, THEN FELL
Status	DECEASED / REIGNED FORTY YEARS / MURDERED AFTER FORSAKING THE LORD

Birth	c. 843 BC	Marks & Identifiers	THE INFANT HEIR HIDDEN IN THE TEMPLE
Place of Birth	JERUSALEM	Hair	UNRECORDED
Tribe	JUDAH	Eyes	UNRECORDED
Parentage	SON OF AHAZIAH, OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID	People	JUDAH
Occupation	KING OF JUDAH	Species	HUMAN
Affiliation	THE HOUSE OF DAVID	Calling	THE RESCUED HEIR WHO DID WELL, THEN TURNED AWAY
Primary Mission	RESTORE THE WORSHIP OF THE LORD IN JUDAH	Known Signs	THE CROWNING AT SEVEN / THE REPAIR OF THE TEMPLE / HIS APOSTASY
Covenant Role	PRESERVED HEIR OF THE DAVIDIC LINE	Divine Access	INDIRECT / GUIDED BY JEHOIADA THE PRIEST WHILE HE LIVED

// Field Assessment

Divine Encounter Level	INDIRECT	Monarchic Classification	THE RESCUED KING
Covenant Status	COVENANT KEPT, THEN FORSAKEN	Known Miracles	NONE RECORDED
Divine Commission	MIXED	Threat Assessment	JOASH'S LATER IDOLATRY / HIS OWN SERVANTS
Mission Status	FAITHFUL WHILE GUIDED / FALLEN AT THE LAST	Archive Category	MONARCHY / THE PRESERVED LINE

// Administrative Notes

How he survived Athaliah's slaughter: HIDDEN SIX YEARS IN THE HOUSE OF GOD

How he repaid Jehoiada's kindness: HAD THE PRIEST'S SON ZECHARIAH STONED

Remarks:

The subject was the infant son of Ahaziah, spared when Athaliah destroyed the royal offspring. His aunt Jehosheba hid him with his nurse in the house of the LORD for six years while the usurping queen reigned.

In the seventh year the priest Jehoiada brought him out, crowned him king at the age of seven, and had Athaliah put to death. The people rejoiced, and the land was quiet.

As long as Jehoiada instructed him, the subject did what was right. He set his heart to repair the house of the LORD, which had fallen into disrepair, gathering money in a chest and paying the workmen faithfully.

But after Jehoiada died, the subject listened to the princes of Judah, abandoned the house of the LORD, and served idols. When Zechariah, the priest's own son, rebuked him by the Spirit, the subject had him stoned in the temple court, forgetting the kindness of his father.

The dying prophet said, May the LORD see and avenge. Within a year a small Aramean force wounded the subject, and his own servants conspired and killed him on his bed, so that he was not buried among the kings.

Primary Sources:

2 KINGS 11-12 / 2 CHRONICLES 24

Secondary References:

2 CHRONICLES 24:22

COVENANT
EYES ONLYRestricted // Sacred Record

// Lessons Learned

Faith borrowed from a mentor must become our own, or it fails when he is gone.
Forgetting the kindness shown us is a grievous and dangerous sin.
A good beginning is no guarantee of a good end without perseverance.

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Authorized Scriptural Record

Jerusalem Archival Office // Collection: Monarchy