2 Chronicles 24:20
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.’”2 Chronicles 24:20 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — 2 કાળવૃતાંત ૨૪:૨૦
- યહોયાદા યાજકના પુત્ર ઝખાર્યા પર ઈશ્વરનો આત્મા આવ્યો; ઝખાર્યાએ લોકોની સમક્ષ ઊભા થઈને કહ્યું, “ઈશ્વર એમ કહે છે: ‘શા માટે તમે ઈશ્વરની આજ્ઞાઓનું ઉલ્લંઘન કરીને પોતાને માથે આફત લાવો છો? તમે ઈશ્વરને તજ્યા છે, માટે તેમણે તમને તજ્યા છે.’”
- हिन्दी — 2 इतिहास २४:२०
- तब परमेश्वर का आत्मा यहोयादा याजक के पुत्र जकर्याह में समा गया, और वह ऊँचे स्थान पर खड़ा होकर लोगों से कहने लगा , “परमेश्वर यह कहता है, कि तुम यहोवा की आज्ञाओं को क्यों टालते हो? ऐसा करके तुम्हारा भला नहीं हो सकता। देखो, तुम ने तो यहोवा को त्याग दिया है, इस कारण उसने भी तुम को त्याग दिया।”
In context
18They 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.
19Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
20The 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.’”
21They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house.
22Thus 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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