2 Chronicles 24:19
 2 Chronicles 24:19 
New International Version (©2011)
Although the LORD sent prophets to the people to bring them back to him, and though they testified against them, they would not listen.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Yet the LORD sent prophets to bring them back to him. The prophets warned them, but still the people would not listen.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD. These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Yet He sent prophets to them to bring them back to the LORD; though they testified against them, they would not listen.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Nevertheless, He sent them prophets to bring them back to the LORD; they admonished them, but the people would not listen.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Nevertheless, God sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD.

NET Bible (©2006)
The LORD sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. They warned the people, but they would not pay attention.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD sent them prophets to bring them back to himself. The prophets warned them, but they wouldn't listen.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

American King James Version
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

American Standard Version
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto Jehovah; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.

Darby Bible Translation
And he sent prophets among them to bring them again to Jehovah, and they testified against them; but they would not give ear.

English Revised Version
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

World English Bible
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

Young's Literal Translation
And He sendeth among them prophets, to bring them back unto Jehovah, and they testify against them, and they have not given ear;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:15-27 See what a great judgment on any prince or people, the death of godly, zealous, useful men is. See how necessary it is that we act in religion from inward principle. Then the loss of a parent, a minister, or a friend, will not be losing our religion. Often both princes and inferior people have been flattered to their ruin. True grace alone will enable a man to bring forth fruit unto the end. Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, being filled with the Spirit of prophecy, stood up, and told the people of their sin. This is the work of ministers, by the word of God, as a lamp and a light, to discover the sin of men, and expound the providences of God. They stoned Zechariah to death in the court of the house of the Lord. Observe the dying martyr's words: The Lord look upon it, and require it! This came not from a spirit of revenge, but a spirit of prophecy. God smote Joash with great diseases, of body, or mind, or both, before the Syrians departed from him. If vengeance pursue men, the end of one trouble will be but the beginning of another. His own servants slew him. These judgments are called the burdens laid upon him, for the wrath of God is a heavy burden, too heavy for any man to bear. May God help us to take warning, to be upright in heart, and to persevere in his ways to the end.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - Prophets. The name of only one, Zechariah, as in next verse, is given (see by the side of this verse the emphatic and touching language of 2 Chronicles 36:14-16).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord,.... To reprove them for their sin, to warn them of their danger, to exhort them to their duty, and endeavour to restore them, and reduce them to the obedience and worship, of God; such was his clemency, goodness, and condescension to them, before he executed his wrath upon them:

and they testified against them; against their sins, and declared what would befall them, and called heaven and earth to witness for God and against them:

but they would not give ear: to their reproofs, admonitions, cautions, and exhortations, but went on in their own ways.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. Yet he sent prophets—Elisha, Micah, Jehu son of Hanani, Jahaziel son of Zechariah (2Ch 20:14), Eliezer son of Dodavah (2Ch 20:37), lived and taught at that time. But all their prophetic warnings and denunciations were unheeded.


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The Wickedness of Joash
17Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them. 18And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass. 19Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

Jeremiah 7:25 From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets.
Zechariah 1:4 Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.