2 Chronicles 24:21
19 Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them; but they would not listen.
20 Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
22 Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
23 In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house.
- ASV
- And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
- DARBY
- And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
- BLB
- And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of YHWH.
- ÅB
- Men de sammensvor seg mot ham og steinet ham på kongens befaling i forgården til Herrens hus.
- OTB
- Så de la planer mot ham, og etter kongens befaling steinet de ham til døde i forgården til Herrens tempel.
- B1930
- Men de sammensvor sig mot ham og stenet ham på kongens befaling i forgården til Herrens hus.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Read in contextActs 7:58–59
They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Read in contextJeremiah 38:4–6
Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”
Read in contextJeremiah 18:18
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
Read in contextJeremiah 11:19
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
Read in contextMatthew 23:34–37
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
Read in contextMatthew 21:35
But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
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