2 Tawarikh 24:25-27

24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash ¹  badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to ²  the son ³  of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus ⁴  he died and was buried in the City of David, ⁵  but not in the tombs of the kings. 24:26 The conspirators were Zabad son of Shimeath (an Ammonite woman) and Jehozabad son of Shimrith (a Moabite woman).

24:27 The list of Joash’s ⁶  sons, the many prophetic oracles pertaining to him, and the account of his building project on God’s temple are included in the record of the Scroll of the Kings. ⁷  His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

[24:25]  ¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:25]  ² tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”

[24:25]  ³ tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.

[24:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he died.”

[24:25]  ⁵ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[24:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “And his sons and the abundance of the oracle[s] against him, and the founding of the house of God, look are they not written on the writing of the scroll of the kings?”