The priest Zechariah stoned
2 Chronicles 24:17–25; Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51
After Jehoiada died, Joash turned to idols; when Jehoiada's son Zechariah rebuked him, the king had him stoned in the temple courtyard.
The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”
2 Chronicles 24:20 (World English Bible)
Zechariah's dying words were “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.” Within a year Aram invaded and Joash was assassinated by his own servants. Jesus later spoke of the righteous blood shed from Abel to Zechariah, from the first murder in the Hebrew Bible to the last (Chronicles closes the Hebrew order).
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Dating notes
Shortly before Joash's death in 839 BC; the date shown is an estimate. Matthew 23:35 calls Zechariah “son of Barachiah”; many identify him with this Zechariah (perhaps Barachiah was an ancestor or Jehoiada's other name), while others think Jesus meant the later prophet Zechariah.