II Chronicles 24:22
The Scripture
(22) Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
Joash, guided by the priest Jehoiada, ordered the repair of the temple by collecting money from the people, and after Jehoiada's death Joash turned to idolatry and had Jehoiada's son Zechariah stoned to death for rebuking him. As judgment, a small Syrian army defeated Judah's much larger force, and Joash was later assassinated by his own servants in his bed.
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