There is some debate as to whether the Zechariah of 2 Chronicles 24 is the same as the Zechariah of the book of Zechariah.
- Father
- Jehoiada
Citations
- 20) And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken 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 remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it.
- Regarding Zacharias, who was killed in the temple, it was said that a pool of his blood remained in the temple, and that when Nebuchadnezer arrived, he found a pool of boiling or bubbling blood, and he had to work hard at killing enough of the priests and their relations to avenge Zacharias before the pool of blood would finally be at ease.
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