2 Chronicles 24:24-27

24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, ¹  for the people of Judah ²  had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians ³  gave Joash what he deserved. ⁴  24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash ⁵  badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to ⁶  the son ⁷  of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus ⁸  he died and was buried in the City of David, ⁹  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 ¹⁰  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. ¹¹  His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

¹ tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”

² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”

⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”

⁷ tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.

⁸ tn Heb “and he died.”

⁹ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

¹⁰ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “And his sons and the abundance of the oracle[s] against him, and the founding of the house of God, look are they not written on the writing of the scroll of the kings?”