2 Chronicles 25:3
kingdom <04467> [A.M. 3166. B.C. 838. Now it came.]
secured ....... executed <02388 02026> [established to him. Heb. confirmed upon him. he slew.]
No doubt those wicked men, Jozachar and Jehozabad, who murdered his father, had considerable influence; and therefore he found it dangerous to bring them to justice, till he was assured of the loyalty of his other officers: when this was clear, he called them to an account, and justly put them to death for treason and murder; for, if even these conspirators against Joash intended to avenge upon him the death of Zechariah, they acted without a commission from that God "to whom vengeance belongeth."