12. So the king and Jehoiada gave it to those doing a work of labor on the house of the Lord. And they hired masons and craftsmen to repair the house of the Lord, and even metal workers in iron and bronze to fortify the house of the Lord.
13. So the workmen worked, and the work was completed by them. They restored the house of God to its specifications and strengthened it.
14. When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, who made vessels for the house of the Lord, vessels for serving and for making burnt offerings, spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They continually offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada.
15. Then Jehoiada became old and full of days and died. He was one hundred and thirty years old when he died.
16. So they buried him in the City of David with the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and His house.
17. After the death of Jehoiada the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king. At that time the king listened to them.
18. Then they abandoned the house of the Lord and God of their fathers, and they served the Asherah poles and idols. And divine wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem because of this guilt.
19. And God sent prophets to return them to the Lord. These warned the people, but they would not listen.
20. Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people saying, “Thus says God: Why are you transgressing the commandments of the Lord so that you all will not be successful? Because you all have abandoned the Lord, He has abandoned you.”
21. But they plotted against him, and at the command of the king they all stoned him in the court of the house of the Lord.
22. And Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada the father of Zechariah had shown him, but killed his son. As he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”
23. And it happened that at the turn of the year the army of Aram came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the officials of the people, and they sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.
24. Though the Aramean army came with a few men, the Lord delivered into their hand a very great Judean army because they abandoned the Lord God of their fathers. So they enacted judgment on Joash.