2 Chronicles 24:18-21 And so they left the house of the Lorde God of their fathers, and serued groues and idoles, and then came the wrath of God vpon Iuda and Hierusalem for this their trespaces sake

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ And so they left the house of the Lorde God of their fathers, and serued groues and idoles, and then came the wrath of God vpon Iuda and Hierusalem for this their trespaces sake ¹⁹ And he sent prophetes to them, to bring the againe vnto the Lord, & they testified vnto them: but they woulde not heare ²⁰ And the spirite of God came vpon Zacharia the sonne of Iehoiada the priest, which stoode by the people, and sayd vnto them, thus sayth God: Why transgresse ye the commaundementes of the Lorde, that ye can not prosper? For because ye haue forsaken the Lord, he also hath forsaken you ²¹ And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commaundement of the king, euen in the court of the house of the Lorde