2 Chronicles 24:15-22

Young Joash Influenced by Jehoiada

¹⁵Now Jehoiada reached a good old age and he died; he was 130 years old at his death. ¹⁶And they buried him in the city of David with the kings, because he had done well in Israel and for God and His house.

¹⁷But after the death of Jehoiada the officials of Judah came and bowed down to the king, and the king listened to them. ¹⁸And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols; so wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs. ¹⁹Yet He sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord; and they testified against them, but they would not listen.

Joash Murders Son of Jehoiada

²⁰Then the Spirit of God covered Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest like clothing; and he stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God has said, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the Lord and do not prosper? Because you have abandoned the Lord, He has also abandoned you.’ ” ²¹So they conspired against him, and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the house of the Lord. ²²So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him, but he murdered his son. And as Zechariah died he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”

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