Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 2 Chronicles 24:17-27. Let’s go!
2 Chronicles 24:17-22 (NIV)
17 After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.
18 They abandoned the temple of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger came upon Judah and Jerusalem.
19 Although the LORD sent prophets to the people to bring them back to him, and though they testified against them, they would not listen.
20 Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you disobey the LORD’s commands? You will not prosper. Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.'”
21 But they plotted against him, and by order of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple.
22 King Joash did not remember the kindness Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him but killed his son, who said as he lay dying, “May the LORDsee this and call you to account.”
On verses 17-22: Jehoiada the priest was like a father to Joash. While Jehoiada was alive, Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord (see verse 2). But after Jehoiada dies, Joash stops getting advice from, and stops aligning himself with, people who trusted the Lord.