Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

His own servants

General references

Bible References

Great diseases

2 Chronicles 21:16
Then the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who bordered the Ethiopians;
2 Chronicles 22:6
So he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

His own servants

2 Kings 12:20
His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash at the house of Millo as he was going down to Silla.
2 Kings 14:19
They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

For the blood

2 Chronicles 24:21
So they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the Lord.
Psalm 10:14
You have seen it, for You have beheld mischief and vexation to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You have been the helper of the orphan.
Revelation 16:6
for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it.”

Not

2 Chronicles 24:16
They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done well in Israel and to God and His house.
2 Chronicles 21:20
He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed with no one’s regret, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 28:27
So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

General references

2 Chronicles 33:24
Finally his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.
Proverbs 28:17
A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood
Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.