Midrash su II Cronache 24:22
וְלֹא־זָכַ֞ר יוֹאָ֣שׁ הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ הַחֶ֙סֶד֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֜ה יְהוֹיָדָ֤ע אָבִיו֙ עִמּ֔וֹ וַֽיַּהֲרֹ֖ג אֶת־בְּנ֑וֹ וּכְמוֹת֣וֹ אָמַ֔ר יֵ֥רֶא יְהוָ֖ה וְיִדְרֹֽשׁ׃ (פ)
Così il re Joash non si ricordò della gentilezza che Jehoiada suo padre gli aveva fatto, ma uccise suo figlio. E quando è morto, ha detto:'Il Signore lo guarda e lo richiede.'
Mekhilta d'Rabbi Yishmael
Others say: Let Amalek, the ingrate, come and exact payment of the ingrate people (Israel). Similarly, (II Chronicles 24:26) "And these are the men who rebelled against him (Yoash), etc.": Let these ingrates come and exact payment of the ingrate Yoash, viz. (Ibid. 22) "and King Yoash did not remember the lovingkindness that (Zechariah's) father Yehoyada had done for him, and he killed his son. As he was dying, he said: "May G d see this and demand redress." What was his punishment? (Ibid. 23) "And it happened at the turn of the year that the army of Aram attacked (Yoash) …and the L rd delivered into their hands a great host." Why? (Ibid. 24) "for they had forsaken the L rd, the G d of their fathers. And with Yoav they effected shefatim." Do not read it "shefatim" (judgment), but "shoftim" (judges). How so? They appointed over him cruel guards, who had never known a woman in their lives and who tortured him with sodomy, as it is written (Hoshea 5:5) "And the pride of Israel (Yoash) will be tortured, etc." (II Chronicles 24:25) "and when they left him (Yoash) — for they left him with many wounds — his servants rebelled against him because of the blood of the sons of Yehoyada the Cohein, and they killed him on his bed and he died."
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