^5 (A)Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to anger before the builders.

³¹ “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that ^(A)you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ^32 (B)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. ³³ Serpents, ^(C)brood^[a] of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? ^34 (D)Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: ^(E)some of them you will kill and crucify, and ^(F)some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, ^35 (G)that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, ^(H)from the blood of righteous Abel to ^(I)the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

³ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother advised him to do wickedly. ⁴ Therefore he did evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Athaliah Reigns in Judah^(A)

11 When ^(B)Athaliah ^(C)the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was ^(D)dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs.

^13 (A)Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?”

So they answered, “We are the brothers of Ahaziah; we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother.”

¹⁴ And he said, “Take them alive!” So they took them alive, and ^(B)killed them at the well of ^[a]Beth Eked, forty-two men; and he left none of them.