Who
Son of Ahaziah, hidden as an infant by his aunt Jehosheba when Athaliah killed the royal family, and crowned at seven by the priest Jehoiada (2 Kings 11). He repaired the Temple while Jehoiada lived (2 Kings 12:2), but afterwards turned to idols and had Jehoiada’s son Zechariah stoned in the Temple court (2 Chronicles 24:17–22). Matthew does not name him.
Key verses
- 2 Kings 11:2
But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
- 2 Kings 12:1
Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
- 2 Kings 12:2
Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
- 1 Chronicles 3:11
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
- 2 Chronicles 24:20
The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey the LORD’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.’”
Where the Bible names him
Family
- Children
Discussed by
Comments on the verses that name him.
- Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 17
On the Article, And in One Holy Ghost, the Comforter, Which Spake in the Prophets. 1 Corinthians xii. 1, 4 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.…Now there are diversities of gifts,…
- Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 54
To Cornelius, Concerning Fortunatus and Felicissimus, or Against the Heretics. Argument.—Cyprian Chiefly Warns Cornelius in This Letter Not to Hear the Calumnies of Felicissimus and Fortunatus Against Him, and Not to…