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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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 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;
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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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 music, 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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