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22 Thus Joash the king did not remember the lovingkindness which his father Jehoiada had shown him, but he killed his son. And as he died he said, “May (A)Yahweh see and [a]avenge!”

Aram Comes Up Against Judah

23 Now it happened at the turn of the year that (B)the military force of the Arameans came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, destroyed all the officials of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus. 24 Indeed the military force of the Arameans came with a small number of men; yet (C)Yahweh gave a very great military force into their hands, (D)because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:22 Or require; lit seek