2Chronicles:24:17-27
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And after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and made obeisance to the king ;
then the king hearkened to them .
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And they forsook the house of Jehovah the God of their fathers ,
and served the Asherahs and idols ;
and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass .
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And he sent prophets among them to bring them again to Jehovah ,
and they testified against them ;
but they would not give ear .
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And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest ;
and he stood up above the people and said unto them ,
Thus saith God :
Wherefore do ye transgress the commandments of Jehovah ?
And ye cannot prosper ;
for ye have forsaken Jehovah ,
and he hath forsaken you .
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And they conspired against him ,
and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah .
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And king Joash remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him ,
but slew his son .
And when he died ,
he said ,
Jehovah see and require [
it ]!
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And it came to pass at the end of the year [
that ]
the army of Syria came up against him ;
and they entered into Judah and Jerusalem ,
and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people ,
and sent all the spoil of them to the king at Damascus .
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Truly with a small company of men came the army of the Syrians ,
but Jehovah delivered a very great army into their hand ,
because they had forsaken Jehovah the God of their fathers ;
and they executed judgment upon Joash .
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And when they had departed from him (
for they left him in great diseases ),
his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest ,
and slew him on his bed ,
and he died ;
and they buried him in the city of David ,
but they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings .
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And these are they that conspired against him :
Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess ,
and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess .
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And as to his sons ,
and the greatness of the burdens [
laid ]
upon him ,
and the building of the house of God ,
behold ,
they are written in the treatise of the book of the kings .
And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead .