2 Chronicles 24:22

In this manner, Joash, the king, ignored the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had done to him. Instead, he killed Jehoiada's son. When Zechariah was dying, he said, “May Yahweh see this and call you to account.”

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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 plotted against him; at the king's command, they stoned him with stones in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh.

23It came about at the end of the year, that the army of Aram came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem; they killed all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder from them to the king of Damascus.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:5But for your blood, the life that is in your blood, I will require payment. From the hand of every animal I will require it. From the hand of any man, that is, from the hand of one who has murdered his brother, I will require an accounting for the life of that man. 1

Judges 8:35They did not keep their promises to the house of Jerub Baal (that is, Gideon), in return for all the good he had done in Israel.

Psalms 10:14You have taken notice, for you always see the one who inflicts the misery and sorrow. 1 The helpless entrusts himself to you; 1 you rescue the fatherless. 1

Proverbs 17:13When someone returns evil for good, 1 evil will never leave his house. 1

Jeremiah 26:14I myself—look at me!—am in your hand. Do to me what is good and right in your eyes.

Jeremiah 51:56For the destroyers have come against her—against Babylon!—and her warriors have been captured. 1 Their bows are broken, for Yahweh is the God of vengeance; he will surely carry out this repayment. 1

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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