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Joash's Apostasy, Punishment, and Assassination

2 Chronicles 24:17-27

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Chapter 24
17 And after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and prostrated themselves to the king. Then the king heard them. 18 And they abandoned the house of the LORD God of their fathers and served the asherim and the idols, and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem in their guilt. 19 And he sent prophets among them to return them to the LORD, and they testified against them, but they would not listen. 20 And the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people and said to them, “The LORD says: Why are you transgressing the commandments of the LORD? You will not prosper, for you have abandoned the LORD and he will abandon you.” 21 And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the courtyard of the house of the LORD. 22 And Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada his father had done with him, and he killed his son. And as he died he said, "May the LORD see and require." 23 And it was at the turn of the year that an army of Aram went up against him and came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the chiefs of the people from among the people, and all their plunder they sent to the king of Damascus. 24 For Aram came with a few men, but the LORD delivered a very great multitude into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. And they executed judgments against Joash. 25 When they went from him—for they had abandoned him in many diseases—his servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed, and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings. 26 And these are the conspirators against him: Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad son of Shomer the Moabitess. 27 Now his sons, the burden that multiplied on him, and the foundation of the house of God—they are written in the midrash of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.