Joash Assassinated
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So it happened in the spring of the year that v the army of Syria came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the leaders of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.
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For the army of the Syrians w came with a small company of men; but the LORD x delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they y executed judgment against Joash.
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And when they had withdrawn from him (for they left him severely wounded), z his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him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.
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These are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
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Now concerning his sons, and a the many oracles about him, and the repairing of the house of God, indeed they are written in the annals of the book of the kings. b Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
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Cross References
2 Kings 12:17
Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; then Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 7:2
And it was told to the house of David, saying, "Syria's forces are deployed in Ephraim." So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:8
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the LORD had surrendered them?
Isaiah 30:17
One thousand shall flee at the threat of one, At the threat of five you shall flee, Till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain And as a banner on a hill.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:25
And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Deuteronomy 28:25
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:8
And it happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers who served Ahaziah, that he killed them.
Isaiah 10:5
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
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Cross References
2 Kings 12:20
And his servants arose and formed a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of the Millo, which goes down to Silla.
2 Kings 12:21
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him. So he died, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 25:3
Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established for him, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king.
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Cross References
2 Kings 12:18
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that his fathers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and in the king's house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he went away from Jerusalem.
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Cross References
2 Kings 12:21
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him. So he died, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.