Be Productive in Old Age

Question 1

2 Chronicles 24:15

Jehoiada

How useful was he in old age?

Answer 1

(2 Chronicles 24:15) 15 When Je·hoiʹa·da was old and satisfied with years, he died; he was 130 years old at his death.

Question 2

At age 100, what did Jehoiada do?

Answer 2

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Jehoiada was probably over a hundred years old when ambitious Queen Athaliah seized control of Judah by murdering her own grandchildren. What could elderly Jehoiada do? For six years he and his wife hid the only surviving royal heir, Jehoash, in the temple. Then, in a dramatic move, Jehoiada proclaimed seven-year-old Jehoash king and had Athaliah executed.—2Chronicles 22:10-12; 23:1-3, 15,21.
12 As the king’s guardian, Jehoiada used his influence to promote true worship. He “concluded a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they would continue as the people of Jehovah.” At Jehoiada’s orders, the people tore down the house of the false god Baal and removed its altars, images, and priest. It was also under Jehoiada’s guidance that Jehoash restored temple services and carried out much-needed temple repair work. “Jehoash continued doing what was right in Jehovah’s eyes all the days of his that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.” (2Chronicles 23:11, 16-19; 24:11-14; 2Kings 12:2) When he died at the age of 130, Jehoiada was given the exceptional honor of burial with the kings because “he had done good in Israel and with the true God and His house.”—2Chronicles 24:15,16.