2 Chronicles 24:16-18

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¹⁶They buried him in the City of David among the kings, because he had done good [things] in Israel and toward God and His house.

¹⁷Now after the death of Jehoiada [the priest, who had hidden Joash], the officials of Judah came and ^[a]bowed down to King Joash; then the king listened to them. ¹⁸They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the ^[b]Asherim and the idols; so [God’s] wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for their sin and guilt.

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 24:17 The sudden transition to idolatry under Joash in v 18 was attributed by the ancient rabbis to this meeting. They claimed that when the officials bowed down to Joash, they were acknowledging him as a god, on the ground that it was actually in the Holy of Holies that he had been hidden for a number of years (see 22:12), and he would not have emerged from this sacred chamber alive if he were not a god. The rabbis said that Joash agreed with the officials and even allowed an idol to be made of himself (one of the idols in v 18), thereby ensuring his own destruction.
2 Chronicles 24:18 Wooden symbols of a female deity.