ASLC Devotions -- Tuesday

2 Kings 11:21
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.  

The 12th chapter of 2 Kings reads like a narrative obituary for King Jehoash. Starting with the last verse of chapter 11, we learn that Jehoash was seven when he began to reign in the land of Jerusalem. He's the only one of his family to have survived a violent revenge-killing. And he survived because someone squirreled him away with his nurse in a room; for seven years they hid there, evidently undetected. We don't know much of what he did for the first part of his kingship, but I imagine that most of it was consumed with growing up. 

His accomplishments as king, fit to be recorded in the book, seem to be two: he got the temple repaired after the priests weren't doing it, putting the repairs in the hands instead of folks like stone cutters and masons; and, he paid off King Hazael of Aram to stop him from invading Jerusalem. After these two highlights are mentioned, the story continues that his servants rose up and killed him.  He served for 40 years and he was succeeded in office by his son. King Jehoash was seven when he took the throne.

Peace,
Pastor Jenn 

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