Joash Murders Son of Jehoiada

^20 (A)Then the Spirit of God ^[a]covered Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest like clothing; and he stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God has said, ‘^(B)Why do you break the commandments of the Lord and do not prosper? ^(C)Because you have abandoned the Lord, He has also abandoned you.’” ²¹ So ^(D)they conspired against him, and at the command of the king they stoned him ^[b]to death in the courtyard of the house of the Lord.

² “^(A)Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the Lord!’”

¹⁴ Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the ^(A)courtyard of the Lord’s house and said to all the people,