2 Chronicles 24:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

At the end of the year; so soon did God hear the cry of his holy prophet's blood, and revenge it. Destroyed all the princes of the people; that it might appear they were sent and directed by God to single out to destruction the first beginners and chief promoters of this general apostacy. Unto the king of Damascus; to Hazael, the king of that part of Syria called Syria Damascena, from its capital city Damascus.

2 Chronicles 24:23

23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.