diff --git a/content/bible_journal/2chronicles/24:17-37.md b/content/bible_journal/2chronicles/24:17-37.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90f8c2e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/2chronicles/24:17-37.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ ++++ +title = "2 Chronicles 24:17–37" +date = "2025-03-31" ++++ + +### [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. + +* * * + +May You be our only source of righteousness, and not merely follow along with what the people around us say is right.