2 Chronicles 24:21

21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the mitzvah of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:21 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 24:21

And they conspired against him
Consulted together to take away his life, and got the order of the king to do it:

and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court
of the house of the Lord;
where he had stood and reproved them; this they did before he went out, while in the temple; and if he is the same Zechariah, as some think, our Lord speaks of, he was slain between the temple porch and the altar, ( Matthew 23:35 ) , (See Gill on Matthew 23:35).

2 Chronicles 24:21 In-Context

19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

20 The Spirit of God came on Zekharyah the son of Yehoiada the Kohen; and he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why disobey you the mitzvot of the LORD, so that you can't prosper? because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.

21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the mitzvah of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

22 Thus Yo'ash the king didn't remember the kindness which Yehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, the LORD look on it, and require it.

23 It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the Aram came up against him: and they came to Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Dammesek.