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2 Chronicles 24:17-37

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title = "2 Chronicles 24:17–37"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2Chronicles24.17-37)
With Jehoiada dead, King Joash began to listen to the advice and counsel of the princes of Judah.
Together, they abandoned the worship of the Lord and began serving the gods of the Caananites of old.
The Lord was displeased, and sent warnings and trials in order to turn the people back to Himself.
Even Jehoiada's son, Zechariah (not to be confused with the Zechariah, son of Berechiah, who wrote the book of prophecy centuries later) began preaching publicly against the cultural changes.
In response, the princes and the king conspired together to have him stoned in the courtyard before the temple of the Lord.
Zechariah calls on the Lord to see the injustice being done and to avenge his death.
The Lord does so by the end of the year.
He raises up a relatively small band of Syrians to raid Judah, and He gives them extraordinary success.
They defeat the much larger army of Judah that is sent against them.
They kill all of the idolatrous princes, but they only wound King Joash.
While the king is bed-ridden from his wounds, his servants take the reveng on Zechariah that he asked from the Lord.
They remembered the goodness of Jehoiada and how his son had followed in his footsteps in seeking the Lord.
To further emphasize their disapproval, they do not bury Joash with the other kings of Judah, though he is still buried in Jerusalem.
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May You be our only source of righteousness, and not merely follow along with what the people around us say is right.