II Chronicles 24 God's Judgment on Joash

 II Chronicles 24

God's Judgment on Joash

23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the army 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 they sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.

24 For although the army of the Syrians came with a small number of men, yet the Lord delivered into their hands an army of a great multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgments upon Joash.

25 And when they departed from him (for they left him in great sickness), his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings. 

26 Now these were the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Josabad the son of Shimreth the Moabitess.

27 And as for his sons, and the greatness of the office that was given to him, and the building of the house of God, behold, they are written in the history of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.