¹⁵ And Jehoiada waxed old and full of years and died. An hundred and thirty years old was he when he died. ¹⁶ And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel, and on God and on his house.

¹⁷ And after the death of Jehoiada, came the lords of Judah and made obeisance to the king. And then he hearkened unto them. ¹⁸ And so they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and Images. And then came there wrath upon Judah and Jerusalem, for this their trespasses' sake. ¹⁹ Notwithstanding yet God sent Prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD. And they testified unto them. But they would not hear.

²⁰ And the spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stepped up above the people and said to them, "Thus sayeth God: 'Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD? Ye shall therefore not prosper, but as ye have forsaken him, so shall he forsake you.'" ²¹ Whereupon they conspired against him and stoned him with stones, at the commandment of the king: even in the court of the house of the LORD. ²² And so Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, "The LORD see, and require a reckoning!"