2 Chronicles 24:18
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest,.... The spirit of prophecy, as the Targum; he was moved and influenced by it to speak what is after related:
which…
We have here a sad account of the degeneracy and apostasy of Joash. God had done great things for him; he had done something for God; but now he proved ungrateful to his God and false to the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
they left the house of the Lord Cp. 2Ch 29:6, "[they] have turned away their faces from the habitation of theLord." These phrases are a kind of euphemism meaning "to commit apostasy."
served groves…
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