2 Chronicles 24:22-24
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.