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22 This is how King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him: he killed his son. As he lay dying, Zechariah cried out, “May the Lord watch this and avenge.”

The Death of Joash(A)

23 At the end of that year, the Aramean army attacked Joash. They invaded Judah and Jerusalem, destroyed every senior official among the people, and sent all of their possessions to the king of Damascus. 24 The Aramean army attacked with only a small force, but the Lord delivered a much larger army into their control because Judah[a] had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. And so the Aramean army carried out God’s[b] judgment on Joash.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:24 Lit. they
  2. 2 Chronicles 24:24 The Heb. lacks of God’s