2 Chronicles 24:19-21

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord; these testified against them, but they would not give heed.

²⁰ Then the Spirit of God took possession of^[a] Zechari′ah the son of Jehoi′ada 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.’” ²¹ But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.