7 others in the registry answer to the name Joash. Every Joash in the Bible
- verses
- 23
- first named
- 2 Kings 13:9
- last named
- Amos 1:1
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Israel
Description
Who was Joash?
Joash, also known as Jehoash, was the king of Israel and the son of Jehoahaz. He reigned for sixteen years (2Ki.13.10; 14.23) and, like his predecessors, did evil in the sight of the Lord (2Ki.13.11). During his reign, the prophet Elisha fell ill and died, but not before prophesying that Joash would defeat the Arameans three times (2Ki.13.14-19).
Joash successfully recaptured cities from the Arameans that had been lost during his father's reign (2Ki.13.25). He also engaged in a war with Amaziah, king of Judah, after Amaziah challenged him to battle (2Ki.14.8-14; 2Ch.25.17-24). Joash defeated Amaziah, captured him, and broke down a portion of the wall of Jerusalem.
The reigns of Joash and his son Jeroboam II were marked by military successes and the restoration of Israel's borders (2Ki.14.23-27). However, despite these victories, the biblical text emphasizes that Joash and the kings of Israel continued in the sins of Jeroboam I, leading to the eventual downfall of the northern kingdom (2Ki.14.24). The prophets Hosea and Amos prophesied during the time of Joash (Hos.1.1; Amo.1.1), warning of the consequences of Israel's disobedience.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.
Child of
Father of
- Jeroboamregistry2 Kings 14:162 Kings 14:23Hosea 1:1 +1
Stands in the same events as
- Amaziah10 events
- Samaria6 events
- Beth-shemesh4 events
- Jerusalem3 events
- Joash3 events
- Israel2 events
- Elisha2 events
- Jeroboam2 events
- Corner Gate2 events
- Ephraim Gate2 events
- Judah1 event
- Death1 event
and 12 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Joash is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
23 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (16), 2 Chronicles (5), Hosea (1) and Amos (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 23, across 4 books. The name is written 25 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 2 Kings 13Joash became king of Israel, wept over Elisha, handled the bow and arrows, and defeated Ben-hadad three times.
- 2 Kings 14Jehoash king of Israel answered Amaziah’s challenge with a thistle-and-cedar fable, defeated Judah, plundered Jerusalem, and returned to Samaria.
- 2 Chronicles 25Jehoash answered Amaziah’s challenge with a thistle-and-cedar fable, defeated him, captured him, and plundered Jerusalem.
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