2 Chronicles 24:20-22
24:20 God’s Spirit energized
Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the
Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the
Lord, he has rejected you!’”
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!”
Zechariah 1:1
Introduction
1:1 In the eighth month of Darius’ second year, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:
Matthew 23:35
23:35 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah,
whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.