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24 Though the army of Aram[a] came with few men, Yahweh gave a very large army into their hand, for they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.[b] And they inflicted punishment on Joash.

25 And when they were going away from him (for they had left him with many wounds), his servants conspired against him on account of the blood of the sons[c] of Jehoiada the priest. So they killed him on his bed and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him at the burial sites of the kings. 26 Now these are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath, the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith, the Moabite.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:24 Or “Syria”
  2. 2 Chronicles 24:24 Or “fathers”
  3. 2 Chronicles 24:25 The Septuagint reads “son”