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2 Chronicles 24:21

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.
2 Chronicles 24:21 · New King James Version
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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.
  • 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.
  • BSB But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard 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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Quick answer

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 7:58–59They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
  • Neh 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
  • Jer 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
  • Jer 38:4–6Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”
  • Matt 21:35The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
  • Jer 18:18Then they said, “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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
  • Matt 23:34–37Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

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Temple, priesthood, and the repeated need for a faithful king who seeks the LORD all point past every imperfect reign to the King and Temple who finally and fully dwell with God's people.

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