He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.”

While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

So the horseman went to meet him and said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” Jehu replied, “None of your business! Follow me.” The watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but hasn’t started back.”

So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.

The enemy broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.

When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.

Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah; she was Onam’s mother.

They attacked the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.

The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.

Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.

From the descendants of Kohath: Uriel the leader and 120 of his relatives.

From the descendants of Gershom: Joel the leader and 130 of his relatives.

From the descendants of Uzziel: Amminadab the leader and 112 of his relatives.

The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

So Israel has been in rebellion against the Davidic dynasty to this very day.

and Jehozabad led 180,000 trained warriors.

After all this happened, the Lord afflicted him with an incurable intestinal disease.

Joash was determined to repair the Lord’s temple.

The Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried off captives.

He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.