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2 Chronicles 24:19

Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.

2 Chronicles 24:19 · World English Bible

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2 Chronicles 24:19 in other translations

KJV King James Version

Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them; but they would not listen.

NHEB New Heart English Bible

Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the Lord; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

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In context

16 They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

17 Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

18 They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

19 Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.

20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey the LORD’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.’”

21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house.

22 Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May the LORD look at it, and repay it.”

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