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25 lines
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title = "2 Chronicles 24:17–37"
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date = "2025-03-31"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2Chronicles24.17-37)
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With Jehoiada dead, King Joash began to listen to the advice and counsel of the princes of Judah.
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Together, they abandoned the worship of the Lord and began serving the gods of the Caananites of old.
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The Lord was displeased, and sent warnings and trials in order to turn the people back to Himself.
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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.
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In response, the princes and the king conspired together to have him stoned in the courtyard before the temple of the Lord.
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Zechariah calls on the Lord to see the injustice being done and to avenge his death.
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The Lord does so by the end of the year.
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He raises up a relatively small band of Syrians to raid Judah, and He gives them extraordinary success.
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They defeat the much larger army of Judah that is sent against them.
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They kill all of the idolatrous princes, but they only wound King Joash.
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While the king is bed-ridden from his wounds, his servants take the reveng on Zechariah that he asked from the Lord.
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They remembered the goodness of Jehoiada and how his son had followed in his footsteps in seeking the Lord.
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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.
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