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2 Chronicles 24:21 Explained in Context
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Verse 21. 21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
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Quick Meaning
Reports a conspiracy and royal command to stone him in the court.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 24:15–24:22
Reports a conspiracy and royal command to stone him in the court. Read 2 Chronicles 24:21 within 24:15–24:22. The complete unit records: Jehoiada dies honored, princes redirect Joash toward other worship, prophets are ignored, and Jehoiada's son Zechariah publicly rebukes the people before the king orders his death in the temple court.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The king preserved by Jehoiada turns against Jehoiada's son, exposing the failure of gratitude, counsel, and institutional memory. In this exact position, the line beginning “And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of…” reports a conspiracy and royal command to stone him in the court.
Follow the Context
- Jehoiada dies honored, princes redirect Joash toward other worship, prophets are ignored, and Jehoiada's son Zechariah publicly rebukes the people before the king orders his death in the temple court.
- The king preserved by Jehoiada turns against Jehoiada's son, exposing the failure of gratitude, counsel, and institutional memory.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of…”
In plain language: Reports a conspiracy and royal command to stone him in the court.
The line beginning “And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of…” reports a conspiracy and royal command to stone him in the court.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Zechariah's murder does not authorize retaliatory curses, martyr-seeking, or violence against people who change religious practice.
What Remains True
Reports a conspiracy and royal command to stone him in the court. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse reports a conspiracy and royal command to stone him in the court, keep it inside 24:15–24:22, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 24:21 reports a conspiracy and royal command to stone him in the court. Use 24:15–24:22, paraphrase “And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 24:15–24:22 — After Jehoiada's death, Zechariah is stonedSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 24:21 remains within this thought-unit limit: The identity and later reception of Zechariah differ across traditions; the narrative's charge against Joash is clearer than every genealogical correlation.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 24:15–24:22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 24:15–24:22
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 24:15–24:22, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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