17 With that the king said to the runners+ stationed about him: “Turn and put to death the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was a runaway and they did not disclose it to my ear!”+ And the servants of the king did not want to thrust out their hand to assault the priests of Jehovah.+

22 And Je·hoʹash the king did not remember the loving-kindness that Je·hoiʹa·da his father had exercised toward him,+ so that he killed his son, who, when he was at the point of dying, said: “Let Jehovah see to it and ask it back.”+

52 Which one of the prophets did YOUR forefathers not persecute?+ Yes, they killed+ those who made announcement in advance concerning the coming of the righteous One,+ whose betrayers and murderers YOU have now become,+