^24:23At the beginning²⁷ of the year the Syrian army attacked²⁸ Joash²⁹ and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus. ^24:24Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army,³⁰ for the people of Judah³¹ had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians³² gave Joash what he deserved.³³^24:25When they withdrew, they left Joash³⁴ badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to³⁵ the son³⁶ of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus³⁷ he died and was buried in the City of David,³⁸ but not in the tombs of the kings. ^24:26The conspirators were Zabad son of Shimeath (an Ammonite woman) and Jehozabad son of Shimrith (a Moabite woman).

^24:27The list of Joash’s³⁹ sons, the many prophetic oracles pertaining to him, and the account of his building project on God’s temple are included in the record of the Scroll of the Kings.⁴⁰ His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

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Footnotes

27 Heb “turning.”
28 Heb “went up against.”
29 Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
30 Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”
31 Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
32 Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
33 Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”
34 Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
35 Heb “because of the shed blood of.”
36 The has the plural בְּנֵי (béney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.
37 Heb “and he died.”
38 The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
39 Heb “his”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 Heb “And his sons and the abundance of the oracle[s] against him, and the founding of the house of God, look are they not written on the writing of the scroll of the kings?”