¹⁷Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and did obeisance to the king; then the king hearkened to them. ¹⁸And they forsook the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt. ¹⁹Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord; these testified against them, but they would not give heed.

²⁰Then the Spirit of God took possession of Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he 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 has forsaken you.’ ” ²¹But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord. ²²Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”

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