2 Chronicles 24:22-27

24:22 King Joash disregarded ¹  the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s ²  son. As Zechariah ³  was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” ⁴ 

24:23 At the beginning ⁵  of the year the Syrian army attacked ⁶  Joash ⁷  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, ⁸  for the people of Judah ⁹  had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians ¹⁰  gave Joash what he deserved. ¹¹  24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash ¹²  badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to ¹³  the son ¹⁴  of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus ¹⁵  he died and was buried in the City of David, ¹⁶  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 ¹⁷  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. ¹⁸  His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

[24:22]  ¹ tn Heb “did not remember.”

[24:22]  ² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:22]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.

[24:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “turning.”

[24:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “went up against.”

[24:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ⁸ 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.”

[24:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”

[24:25]  ¹² tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”

[24:25]  ¹⁴ tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.

[24:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he died.”

[24:25]  ¹⁶ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[24:27]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:27]  ¹⁸ 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?”