2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

In Context

21But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.

23In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

Judges 8:35They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.

Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Proverbs 17:13If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.

Jeremiah 26:14As for me, here I am in your hands; do to me what you think is good and right.

Jeremiah 51:56For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 24:16-27

Joash Slain by His Servants. ( b. c. 845.) 15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; a hundred and thirty years old was he when he died. 16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house. 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. 18 And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and… Read the whole commentary →

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