But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
We have here a sad account of the degeneracy and apostasy of Joash. God had done great things for him; he had done something for God; but now he proved ungrateful to his God and false to the engagements he had laid himself under to him. How has the gold become dim, and the most fine gold changed! Here we find, I. The occasions of his apostasy.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 24:15-27
And it came to pass at the end of the year,.... After the death of Zechariah; so soon had his prophecy its accomplishment: that the host of Syria came up against him; against Joash, king of Judah, under Hazael king of Syria, or however sent by him; for some think this is a different expedition from that in Kg2 12:17 though others take it to...
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. (m) There is no rage so cruel and beastly as of them whose hearts God has hardened, and who delight more in superstition and idolatry than in the true service of God and pure simplicity of his word.