They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king.
Then the king listened to them.
They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.