2 Chronicles 24:23-27

International Standard Version

The Death of Joash^(A)

²³ At the end of that year, the Aramean army attacked Joash. They invaded Judah and Jerusalem, destroyed every senior official among the people, and sent all of their possessions to the king of Damascus. ²⁴ The Aramean army attacked with only a small force, but the Lord delivered a much larger army into their control because Judah^[a] had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. And so the Aramean army carried out God’s^[b] judgment on Joash. ²⁵ After the Arameans left him very sick, Joash’s^[c] own servants conspired against him because Joash^[d] had murdered Jehoiada the priest’s son, and they killed him on his sick bed. ²⁶ The conspirators included Shimeath the Ammonite’s son Zabad and Shimrith the Moabite’s son Jehozabad. ²⁷ Records concerning his sons, the various prophetic statements rebuking him, and records of the reconstruction work on God’s Temple are written in the Midrash^[e] of the Book of the Kings. Joash’s^[f] son Amaziah reigned in his place.