Joash (JEHOASH the th King SH the th)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

or JEHOASH, the 8th King SH, the 8th Ki of Judah; born in 878 b. c. He was the 3. C. He was t only son of Ahaziah who was not slain who was not sla by the usurping Athaliah, his grandalish, his gran mother. Being rescued by Jehosheba, by Jehoshel his aunt, and secluded six years in the six years in t temple, he was raised to the throne, when to the throne, whe International Film Service THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE AT KINGSTON, ISLAND OF JAMAICA Enc. Vol. 5-p. 260 International Film Service THE GOVERNOR'S PALACH AT KINGSTON, ISLAND OF JAMAICA Ene. Vol. 6-p. 220 E. M. Newman A TELEPHOTO VIEW OF THE TOP OF FUJIYAMA, JAPAN'S FAMOUS CONICAL EXTINCT VOLCANO E. M. Newman A TELEPHOTO Publishers' Photo Service AN AVENUE OF CRYPTOMERIA TREES AT NIKKO, JAPAN © Brown & Dawson E. M. Newman THE STREET CALLED VIA DOLOROSA IN JERUSALEM. THOUGHT TO BE THAT OF THE STREET CHRIST PASSED קונה כן קלמן E. M. Newman E. M. Newmon THE WAILING WALL, ONCE PART OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, JERUSALEM THE WAILING WALL, ONCE PART OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, JERUSALEM Brown & Dawson THE DAMASCUS GATE, JERUSALEM, THROUGH WHICH PASSES THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS Proum & Douses THE DAMASCUS C US CATS, JERUSALEM, THROUGH WHICH PASING THE HOAD TO DAMABOUB SOM Keystone View Company TEMPLE EMMANU-EL, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK VYORK PLE EMMAN seven years of age, through the faithful care of Jehoiada; and while this venerable man survived, Joash served God and prospered. Idols were banished, and the temple was repaired. But afterward he followed less wholesome counsels; idolatry revived; and when Zechariah, the high priest rebuked the guilty people, the ungrateful king caused this servant of God, the son of his benefactor, to be stoned to death. Misfortunes soon multiplied on his head; he was repeatedly humbled by the Syrians, and gave them the temple treasures as a ransom; a loathsome disease imbittered his life, which was soon cut short by a conspiracy of his servants, and he was not buried in the sepulcher of the kings (II Kin. xi, xii; II Chr. xxiii: xxiv). The prophet Joel was contemporary with him. He died in B. c. 838.