2 Chronicles 24:23-25

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Aramea Attacks Judah^(A)

²³ At the ·end [^Lturning; ^Cspring] of the year, the Aramean army came against Joash. They attacked Judah and Jerusalem, killed all the ·leaders [officials] of the people, and sent all the ·valuable things [plunder; spoil; booty] to their king in Damascus. ²⁴ The Aramean army came with only a small group of men, but the Lord handed over to them a very large army from Judah, because the people of Judah had ·left [abandoned; forsaken] the Lord, the God of their ·ancestors [fathers]. So Joash was ·punished [judged]. ²⁵ When the Arameans left, Joash was badly wounded. His own ·officers [officials] made plans against him because ·he had killed [^Lof the shed blood of] Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. So they ·killed [murdered] Joash in his own bed. He died and was buried in the City of David [^CJerusalem] but not in the ·graves [tombs] of the kings.