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.
Great diseases
His own servants
For the blood
General references
Bible References
Great diseases
2 Chronicles 21:16
The Lord put it into the mind of the Philistines and the Arabs who live near the Cushites to attack Jehoram.
2 Chronicles 22:6
so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they inflicted on him in Ramoth-gilead when he fought against Aram’s King Hazael. Then Judah’s King Ahaziah son of Jehoram went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab since Joram was ill.
His own servants
2 Kings 12:20
Joash’s servants conspired against him and killed him at Beth-millo on the road that goes down to Silla.
2 Kings 14:19
A conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. However, men were sent after him to Lachish, and they put him to death there.
For the blood
2 Chronicles 24:21
But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.
Psalm 10:14 But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.
Revelation 16:6 Because they poured out
the blood of the saints and the prophets,
You also gave them blood to drink;
they deserve it!
the blood of the saints and the prophets,
You also gave them blood to drink;
they deserve it!
Not
2 Chronicles 24:16
He was buried in the city of David with the kings because he had done what was good in Israel with respect to God and His temple.
2 Chronicles 21:20
Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king; he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He died to no one’s regret and was buried in the city of David but not in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 28:27
Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city, in Jerusalem, but they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah became king in his place.
General references
2 Chronicles 33:24
So his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.
Proverbs 28:17 A man burdened by bloodguilt
will be a fugitive until death.
Let no one help him.
will be a fugitive until death.
Let no one help him.