2 Chronicles 24:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

In the court of the house of the Lord - “Between the altar and the Temple,” or directly in front of the temple porch, if it be this Zechariah of whom our Lord speaks Matthew 23:35. A horror of the impious deed long possessed the Jews, who believed that the b ood could not be effaced, but continued to bubble on the stones of the court, like blood newly shed, until the temple was entered, just prior to its destruction, by Nebuzaradan.

2 Chronicles 24:21

21 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.