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.
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- WEB They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.
- BSB But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
- NKJV So they conspired against him, and at the command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.
- NASB So they conspired against him, and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the house of the Lord.
- NLT Then the leaders plotted to kill Zechariah, and King Joash ordered that they stone him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s Temple.
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At the king's command, the people stoned Zechariah in the temple courtyard. Joash repaid faithful warning with murderous ingratitude, sinking to terrible depths of sin.
Overview
The prophet was killed in the very temple Joash had restored, by the king whose life his father had saved. This act of shedding innocent, righteous blood marks the climax of Judah's apostasy. Jesus later cites Zechariah's martyrdom as representative of the prophets killed by an unbelieving people (Matthew 23:35).
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- Acts 7:58–59And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
- Neh 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- Jer 11:19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- Jer 38:4–6Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
- Matt 21:35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
- Jer 18:18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
- Matt 23:34–37Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
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