²⁰Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God: ‘Why are you transgressing the commandments of Yahweh so that you will not succeed? For you have forsaken Yahweh, so he will forsake you.’ ” ²¹Then they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh. ²²So King Joash did not remember the loyal love that Jehoiada his^e father had shown to him, and he killed his son. And as he was dying he said, “May Yahweh see and avenge!”

The Death of Joash

²³And it happened at the turn of the year that the army of Aram^f went up against him, and they came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the commanders of the people from among the people, and all the war booty they sent to the king of Damascus. ²⁴Though the army of Aram^g came with few men, Yahweh gave a very large army into their hand, for they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.^h And they inflicted punishment on Joash.

²⁵And when they were going away from him (for they had left him with many wounds), his servants conspired against him on account of the blood of the sonsⁱ of Jehoiada the priest. So they killed him on his bed and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him at the burial sites of the kings.

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Footnotes

eThat is, Zechariah’s
fOr “Syria”
gOr “Syria”
hOr “fathers”
iThe Septuagint reads “son”