2 Chronicles 24:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. Stoned him - at the commandment of the king - What a most wretched and contemptible man was this, who could imbrue his hands in the blood of a prophet of God, and the son of the man who had saved him from being murdered, and raised him to the throne! Alas, alas! Can even kings forget benefits? But when a man falls from God, the devil enters into him; and then he is capable of every species of cruelty.