Zechariah son of Jehoiada זכריה בן יהוידע

As long as Jehoiada lived, King Joash did what was right. Jehoiada died — and the officers of Judah came and bowed to the king, and he listened to them. They abandoned the House of the LORD and served the asherahs and the idols.

Prophets were sent to bring the people back; they were not heard. Then the spirit of God clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada, and he stood above the people: "thus said God: why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD? You shall not prosper. You have forsaken the LORD, and He has forsaken you."

He was stoned by the king's command, in the court of the House of the LORD. Chronicles sets two things side by side so the reader will not pass them: "and Joash did not remember the kindness Jehoiada his father had done him, and killed his son." As he died Zechariah said: "may the LORD see and require it."

This death became a subject of its own in Jewish tradition. The Talmud and midrashim tell that his blood seethed on the stones of the court and would not settle until Nebuzaradan, Nebuchadnezzar's commander, came more than two centuries later — and only then did it grow quiet. The story is cited as tradition, not as a verse of the Tanakh, and it is named as such here.

A year after the murder an Aramean army came against Joash; the king was badly wounded and killed in his bed by his own servants.