lesserot - 2Chronicles:24:17-27

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:17 @ But after the death of Yehoyada came the princes of Judah, and bowed themselves down to the king. Then did the king hearken unto them.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:18 @ And they forsook the house of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and there came wrath over Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:19 @ And he sent prophets among them, to bring them back again unto the Lord; and they gave them warning; but they did not give ear.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:20 @ And the spirit of God endued Zechariah the son of Yehoyada the priest, and he stood up above the people, and he said unto them, Thus hath said the God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord? ye cannot prosper so; because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:21 @ And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:22 @ And king Joash did not remember the kindness which Yehoyada his father had shown to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord will see, and require.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:23 @ And it came to pass at the expiration of the year, that the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and all their spoil they sent off unto the king of Damascus.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:24 @ Indeed with a small company of men did the army of Syria come; but the Lord delivered into their hand an army exceedingly numerous; because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers. And on Joash they executed punishment.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:25 @ And when these were gone away from himfor they left him with great diseaseshis own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Yehoyada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:26 @ And these are those that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimath the Ammonitess, and Yehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

lesserot@2Chronicles:24:27 @ Now concerning his sons, and the great prophecy concerning him, and the founding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amazyahu his son became king in his stead.