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# Joash had been severely wounded
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "they had severely wounded Joash" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada
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The word "blood" here is a metaphor for innocent life and a metonym for the murder in which the blood was shed. Alternate translation: "because he had murdered the sons of Jehoiada" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# They killed him in his bed
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"The servants killed Joash in his bed"
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