Joash or Jehoash (Hebrew יהואש המלך, YHWH-given) (884-r. 878-839 BC according to Ussher, or 841-r. 835-798 BC according to Thiele) was the seventh king of the Southern Kingdom of Israel in direct line of descent from King David. Technically, he was the eighth reigning monarch, if one includes his grandmother Athaliah in the reckoning. But because Athaliah attempted to secure her succession by an act of murder, her "reign," such as it is, is more accurately described as a period of usurpation, if not an interregnum. The high priest Jehoiada did not so much bring him to his throne as assert, by force of arms, his lawful authority to sit on it. Sadly, Joash repaid the kindness of this priest with murder, and died by an act of murder in his own turn.
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| - Joash or Jehoash (Hebrew יהואש המלך, YHWH-given) (884-r. 878-839 BC according to Ussher, or 841-r. 835-798 BC according to Thiele) was the seventh king of the Southern Kingdom of Israel in direct line of descent from King David. Technically, he was the eighth reigning monarch, if one includes his grandmother Athaliah in the reckoning. But because Athaliah attempted to secure her succession by an act of murder, her "reign," such as it is, is more accurately described as a period of usurpation, if not an interregnum. The high priest Jehoiada did not so much bring him to his throne as assert, by force of arms, his lawful authority to sit on it. Sadly, Joash repaid the kindness of this priest with murder, and died by an act of murder in his own turn.
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| - Joash or Jehoash (Hebrew יהואש המלך, YHWH-given) (884-r. 878-839 BC according to Ussher, or 841-r. 835-798 BC according to Thiele) was the seventh king of the Southern Kingdom of Israel in direct line of descent from King David. Technically, he was the eighth reigning monarch, if one includes his grandmother Athaliah in the reckoning. But because Athaliah attempted to secure her succession by an act of murder, her "reign," such as it is, is more accurately described as a period of usurpation, if not an interregnum. The high priest Jehoiada did not so much bring him to his throne as assert, by force of arms, his lawful authority to sit on it. Sadly, Joash repaid the kindness of this priest with murder, and died by an act of murder in his own turn.
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