Joash Assassinated

2 Chronicles 24

23 At the end of the year z the army of the Syrians came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus. 24 Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, a the Lord delivered into their hand a very great army, v because Judah 1 had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Thus they b executed judgment on Joash.

25 When they had departed from him, leaving him c severely wounded, d his servants conspired against him because of the blood of e the son 2 of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, f but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings. 26 Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite. 27 Accounts of his sons and of the many oracles against him and of g the rebuilding 3 of the house of God are written in the h Story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 12:17 - 18
    At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:17
    A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
    Leviticus 26:8
    Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
    Leviticus 26:36 - 37
    And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
  3. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:20
    Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, "Thus says God, 'Why do you break the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.'
  4. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 22:8
    And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:35
    The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
  6. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:25 - 27
    When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
    2 Kings 12:20 - 21
    His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
  7. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:21 - 22
    But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.
  8. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 21:20
    He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
    2 Chronicles 28:27
    And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
  9. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:12
    And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the Lord, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the Lord.
  10. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 13:22
    The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
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