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kerajaan(TB/TL) <04467> [A.M. 3166. B.C. 838. Now it came.]

kuasa ....... dibunuhnyalah bunuh(TB)/kuasanya(TL) <02388 02026> [established to him. Heb. confirmed upon him. he slew.]

No doubt those wicked men, Jozachar and Jehozabad, who murdered his father, had considerable influence; and therefore he found it dangerous to bring them to justice, till he was assured of the loyalty of his other officers: when this was clear, he called them to an account, and justly put them to death for treason and murder; for, if even these conspirators against Joash intended to avenge upon him the death of Zechariah, they acted without a commission from that God "to whom vengeance belongeth."