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2 Chronicles
Chapter 23
1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took
the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the
son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of
Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all
the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they
came to Jerusalem.
3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the
house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall
reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
4 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering
on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of
the doors;
5 And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part
at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the
courts of the house of the LORD.
6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests,
and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are
holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man
with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house,
he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in,
and when he goeth out.
8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that
Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were
to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the
sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of
hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's,
which were in the house of God.
10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his
hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple,
along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the
crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and
his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the
entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the
singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise.
Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds
that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the
ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For
the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.
15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering
of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the
people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it
down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan
the priest of Baal before the altars.
18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by
the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the
house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is
written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was
ordained by David.
19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD,
that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the
governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought
down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the
high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of
the kingdom.
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet,
after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.