23 ¶ And when the year was out, the host of Aram came up against him, and they came against Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.

24 Though the army of Aram came with a small company of men, yet the Lord delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers: and they [a]gave sentence against Joash.

25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the [b]children of Jehoiada the Priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died, and they buried him in the city of David: but they buried him not in the sepulchers of the kings.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:24 That is, reproved and checked him, and handled him rigorously.
  2. 2 Chronicles 24:25 Meaning, Zechariah, which was one of Jehoiada’s sons, and a Prophet of the Lord.

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