nkjv 2Chronicles:24:17-27 SEEK
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Now after the death of Jehoiada the leaders of Judah came and bowed down to the king .
And the king listened to them .
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Therefore they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers ,
and served wooden images and idols ;
and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their trespass .
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Yet He sent prophets to them ,
to bring them back to the LORD ;
and they testified against them ,
but they would not listen .
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Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest ,
who stood above the people ,
and said to them , "
Thus says God : "
Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD ,
so that you cannot prosper ?
Because you have forsaken the LORD ,
He also has forsaken you ."'
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So they conspired against him ,
and at the command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD .
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Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him ,
but killed his son ;
and as he died ,
he said , "
The LORD look on it ,
and repay !"
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So it happened in the spring of the year that the army of Syria came up against him ;
and they came to Judah and Jerusalem ,
and destroyed all the leaders of the people from among the people ,
and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus .
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For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men ;
but the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand ,
because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers .
So they executed judgment against Joash .
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And when they had withdrawn from him (
for they left him severely wounded ),
his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest ,
and killed him on his bed .
So he died .
And they buried him in the City of David ,
but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings .
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These are the ones who conspired against him :
Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess ,
and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess .
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Now concerning his sons ,
and the many oracles about him ,
and the repairing of the house of God ,
indeed they are written in the annals of the book of the kings .
Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place .