2 Chronicles 24:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

Conspired

Jeremiah 11:19

Jeremiah 18:18

Jeremiah 38:4

General references

Bible References

Conspired

I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised schemes against me. They told themselves, "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit. Let's eliminate him from the land of the living, so his name won't be remembered again."

Then they said, "Come, let's make up a plot against Jeremiah. After all, the priest's instruction, the wise man's counsel, and the prophet's message won't be destroyed. So let's verbally attack him. Pay no attention to anything he says!"

Then the officials told the king, "Let this man be put to death because he's undermining the efforts of the soldiers who remain in this city and that of all the people by speaking words like these to them. Indeed, this man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but rather their harm."

General references

Jehoash did what the LORD considered to be right during the entire time when Jehoiada the priest was instructing him,

Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult, and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.

A muddied spring or a polluted well that's what a righteous person is who compromises with the wicked.

A guilty man tormented by bloodshed will be a lifelong fugitive; let no one support him.

But the farmers took his servants and beat one, killed another, and attacked another with stones.

Added to all this, Herod locked John up in prison.