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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.
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