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19 Adonai sent prophets to them to bring them back to Him and although they admonished them, they would not listen.

20 Then the Ruach Elohim came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the kohen.[a] He stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you transgress the mitzvot of Adonai? You will not succeed. Because you have forsaken Adonai, He has also forsaken you.’”

21 But they conspired against him, and by order of the king, they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the House of Adonai.

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