14:024:015 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of
days when he died; an
hundred
and thirty years old was he when he died.
14:024:016 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.
14:024:017 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the
princes of Judah, and
made
obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened
unto them.
14:024:018 And they left the house of the lord
God of their fathers, and
served
groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and
Jerusalem
for this their trespass.
14:024:019 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring
them again unto the
lord;
and they testified against them: but they would
not give
ear.
14:024:020 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah
the son of Jehoiada
the
priest, which stood above the people, and said unto
them,
Thus
saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the
lord,
that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the
lord,
he hath also forsaken you.
14:024:021 And they conspired against him, and stoned
him with stones at
the
commandment of the king in the court of the house of
the
lord.
14:024:022 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.
14:024:023 And it came to pass at the end of the year,
that the host of
Syria
came up against him: and they came to Judah and
Jerusalem,
and destroyed all the princes of the people from
among
the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the
king
of
Damascus.
14:024:024 For the army of the Syrians came with a
small company of men,
and
the lord delivered a very great host into their
hand,
because
they had forsaken the lord God of their fathers.
So
they
executed judgment against Joash.
14:024:025 And when they were departed from him, (for
they left him in
great
diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for
the
blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew
him on
his
bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city
of
David,
but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
14:024:026 And these are they that conspired against
him; Zabad the son
of
Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith
a
Moabitess.
14:024:027 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness
of the burdens laid
upon
him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold,
they
are
written in the story of the book of the kings.
And Amaziah
his
son reigned in his stead.


