Joash’s Treachery

20 ^jThen ^kthe Spirit of God ^lclothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ^m‘Why do you break the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because ⁿyou have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’” 21 ^oBut they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.

26 “Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and ^ucast your law behind their back and ^vkilled your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

20 There was another man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah. 21 And when King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt. 22 Then King Jehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men, ^bElnathan the son of Achbor and others with him, 23 and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.