450 A SHORT VIEW OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. '21. Q. Who succeeded to the throne of Judah when Aha- ziah was dead ? A. Athaliah his mother seized the kingdom, and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah, except Joash the son of Ahaziah, an infant of a year old, who was hid in the temple; 2 Chron. xxii. 2, 10-12. 22. Q. How did Athaliah reign ? A. As she counselled her son Ahaziah before, so she herself practised the idolatry of the house of Ahab; 2 Chron. xxii. 3, 17. and xxiv. 7. 23. Q. howwas Athaliah deposed ? A. Jehoiada the high - priest stirred up the captains of the army, the levites, and the chief of the people against her : he set Joash on the throne when he was seven years old, anointed and proclaimed him king, then ordered the guards to slay Athaliah, and destroyed the worship of Baal ; 2 Chron. xxiii. 1 -15. 24. Q. What was the conduct of Joash in his government ? A. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest, who was his uncle : he repaired the temple, and the vessels thereof, and restored the worship of God ; 2 Chron. xxiv. 1 -15. 25. Q. How did Joash behave after Jehoiada's death ? A. He was persuaded to change the worship of God for idols, and most ungratefully slew Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, because he reproved the idolatryof the people ; 2 Chron. xxiv. 17-22. Mat. xxiii. 35. 26. Q. In what manner (lid God punish him for his crime ? A. He sent ani army of the Syrians against him, who pillaged the country ; he smote him with sore diseases, andat last his own servants slew him on his bed ; Verses 23-26. 27. Q. How (lid Amaziah the son of Joash reign ? A. At first he seemed to work righteousness, and hearkened to the voice of God and his prophets ; but afterwards, gaining a victory over the Edomites, he learnei to worship the gods of Edom ; 2 Chron. xxv. 1 -16. 28. Q. How came Amaziah to meet his ruin and his death ? A. Beingpuffed up with his success againstEdom, he challenged the king of Israel to battle, and was routed shamefully, and was slain at last by a conspiracy of his own people ; 2 Chron. xxvi. 17-28. 29. Q. What was the character and reign of Uzziali the king ? A. He was made king at sixteen years old, in the room of his father Amaziah; lie sought after God in the days of Zechariah the prophet, and God prospered his arms against all his enemies, and made his name great ; 2 Chron. xxvi. 1, 15. Note, This was several hundred years before that Zechariah who prophesied after the captivity. 30. Q. Wherein did he provoke God afterwards ? A. His heart was lifted up by his prosperity, and he assumed the priest's office, and burned incense in the temple, though the priests op- posed him ; Verse 16.
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