2 Chronicles 24:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Stoned him — They stoned him immediately, without even colour of law; as horrid a piece of wickedness, as any we read of in all the history of the kings. That ever such a villainy should be committed, by men, by Israelites, in contempt and violation of everything that is just, honourable, and sacred! The Jews say, there were seven transgressions in one: They killed a priest, a prophet, a judge; they shed innocent blood; polluted the court of the temple, the Sabbath, and the day of expiation: for on that day, their tradition says, this happened.

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.