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Yet ^(q)He sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord ; though they testified against them, they would not listen.

^(r)Then the Spirit of God ^[l]came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, "Thus God has said, ‘^(s)Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord and do not prosper? ^(t)Because you have forsaken the Lord , He has also forsaken you.'"

So ^(u)they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him ^[m]to death in the court of the house of the Lord .

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which his father Jehoiada had shown him, but he murdered his son. And as he died he said, "May ^(v)the Lord see and ^[n]avenge!"