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24 Although the army of Aram had come with only a few men, the Lord delivered a very great army into their hand because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. So the Arameans carried out judgment against Joash.

25 When they withdrew, leaving behind Joash, who was severely wounded, his own officials conspired against him because of the blood of the sons[a] of Jehoiada the priest. They violently attacked him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in the City of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

26 Those who conspired against him were Zabad son of Shimath, an Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad son of Shimrith, a Moabite woman.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:25 Some of the ancient versions read the singular son.
  2. 2 Chronicles 24:26 The forms of these names vary from those in 2 Kings 12:21, and 2 Chronicles 24 specifies that the parents named are their mothers, not their fathers as is usually the case.