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Such was the gratitude of Joas; for the great services the father had done him, the son must die. And as he died, he said, May the Lord look on this, and exact the penalty. (2 Chronicles 24, 22)
It was but a small force of Syrians that came, yet the Lord gave them the mastery over a great host; and all because Juda had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. A shameful punishment Joas must undergo, (2 Chronicles 24, 24)
Once his power was firmly established, he put his father’s murderers to death, (2 Chronicles 25, 3)
but not their children; the Lord’s injunction, laid down by the terms of Moses’ law, was that a father must not die for his son’s guilt, or a son for his father’s; no guilt but his own should bring a man to death.✻ (2 Chronicles 25, 4)
But Amasias would have his way; the Lord’s will was that he should fall into his enemy’s hands, to punish him for worshipping the gods of Edom. (2 Chronicles 25, 20)
So Joas, king of Israel, marched out, and they faced one another while Amasias, king of Juda, was still in his own territory, at Bethsames; (2 Chronicles 25, 21)
afterwards his body was brought back to Jerusalem in a horse-litter, and there buried with his fathers in David’s Keep.✻ (2 Chronicles 25, 28)
Thereupon the whole people of Juda chose one of his sons, Ozias, a boy of sixteen years, to succeed his father Amasias; (2 Chronicles 26, 1)
he it was who carried out the designs of his dead father by fortifying the harbour of Ailath and restoring it to the possession of Juda. (2 Chronicles 26, 2)
He obeyed the Lord’s will, as faithfully as once his father Amasias did. (2 Chronicles 26, 4)
At Jerusalem, he contrived engines of many sorts, poised on tower or on wall-corner, that discharged arrows and great boulders. Far spread his fame, such help the Lord gave him, and such greatness. (2 Chronicles 26, 15)
to withstand the royal will. Not for thee, Ozias, they cried, to burn incense in the Lord’s honour; that is for the priests, the sons of Aaron, that are set apart for this office. Leave this holy place, and profane it no more; thou wilt win no favour from the Lord God by such doings as these. (2 Chronicles 26, 18)
