²⁰ Joash’s officers plotted against him and assassinated him at Beth-millo on the road to Silla.

²⁴ Although the Arameans attacked with only a small army, the Lord helped them conquer the much larger army of Judah. The people of Judah had abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, so judgment was carried out against Joash.

²⁵ The Arameans withdrew, leaving Joash severely wounded. But his own officials plotted to kill him for murdering the son^[a] of Jehoiada the priest. They assassinated him as he lay in bed. Then he was buried in the City of David, but not in the royal cemetery. ²⁶ The assassins were Jozacar,^[b] the son of an Ammonite woman named Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of a Moabite woman named Shomer.^[c]

²⁷ The account of the sons of Joash, the prophecies about him, and the record of his restoration of the Temple of God are written in The Commentary on the Book of the Kings. His son Amaziah became the next king.

⁵ When Amaziah was well established as king, he executed the officials who had assassinated his father.

⁹ So David made the fortress his home, and he called it the City of David. He extended the city, starting at the supporting terraces^[a] and working inward.

⁶ Then all the leading citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo called a meeting under the oak beside the pillar^[a] at Shechem and made Abimelech their king.

²⁷ This is the story behind his rebellion. Solomon was rebuilding the supporting terraces^[a] and repairing the walls of the city of his father, David.

²⁴ Then Amon’s own officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.

²⁷ After Amaziah turned away from the Lord, there was a conspiracy against his life in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But his enemies sent assassins after him, and they killed him there.