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Texts -- 2 Chronicles 24:21-27 (NET)

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24:21 They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple . 24:22 King Joash disregarded the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s son . As Zechariah was dying , he said , “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” 24:23 At the beginning of the year the Syrian army attacked Joash and invaded Judah and Jerusalem . They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus . 24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak , the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army , for the people of Judah had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors . The Syrians gave Joash what he deserved . 24:25 When they withdrew , they left Joash badly wounded . His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to the son of Jehoiada the priest . They murdered him on his bed . Thus he died and was buried in the City of David , but not in the tombs of the kings . 24:26 The conspirators were Zabad son of Shimeath (an Ammonite woman) and Jehozabad son of Shimrith (a Moabite woman). 24:27 The list of Joash’s sons , the many prophetic oracles pertaining to him, and the account of his building project on God’s temple are included in the record of the Scroll of the Kings . His son Amaziah replaced him as king .

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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)

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Expositions Of Holy Scripture (Maclaren)

  • In these verses we have, first, the specification of another form of hypocrisy, consisting in building the prophets' tombs, and disavowing the fathers' murder of them. Honouring dead prophets was right; but honouring dead one...
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