19. Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again unto the Lord, and they testified against them, but they would not give ear.
20. And the Spirit of God clothed himself in Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, the priest, who being over the people, said unto them, Thus hath God said, Why do ye transgress the commandments of the Lord? Ye shall not prosper in this; for because ye have forsaken the Lord, he shall also forsake you.
21. 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.
22. Thus Joash, the king, did not remember the mercy which Jehoiada, his father, had done to him but slew his son; who said when he died, The Lord look upon it and require it.
23. And at the end of the year, the host 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 sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
24. For even though the army of the Syrians had come with a small company of men, the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgments against Joash.