II Chronicles Chapter 23

II Chronicles Chapter 23
1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada
waxed bold, and took the captains of
hundreds, to wit, 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 in covenant
with him.
2 And they went about in Judah, and
gathered the Levites out of all the cities
of Judah, and the chief 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 must
reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of
David.
4 This is it that ye shall do, The third
part of you that come on the Sabbath of
the priests, and the Levites, shall be
porters of the doors. 5 And another third
part toward the king's house, and
another 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 the Levites
that minister: 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, and every man with his
weapon in his hand, and he that entereth
into the house, shall be slain, and be you
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 came on the
Sabbath, with them that went out on the
Sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest did not
discharge the courses.
9 And Jehoiada the priest delivered to
the captains of hundreds spears, and
shields, and bucklers which had been
king David's, and were in the house of
God.
10 And he caused all the people to stand
(every man with his weapon in his hand)
from the right side of the house, to the
left side of the house by the altar and by
the house round about the king.
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 But 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 when she looked, behold, the
king stood by his pillar at the entering in,
and the princes and the trumpets by the
king, and all the people of the land
rejoiced, and blew the trumpets, and the
singers were with instruments of music,
and they that could sing praise: then
Athaliah rent her clothes, and said,
Treason, treason.
14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out
the captains of hundreds that were
governors of the host, and said unto
them, Have her forth of the ranges, and
he that followeth her, let him die by the
sword: for the priest had 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 all the people, and the
king, that they would be the Lord's
people.
17 And all the people went to the house
of Baal, and destroyed it, and break his
altars and his images, and slew Mattan
the priest of Baal before the altars. 18
And Jehoiada appointed officers for the
house of the Lord, under the hands of the
priests and Levites, whom David had
distributed for the house of the Lord, to
offer burnt offerings unto the Lord, as it
is written in the law of Moses, with
rejoicing and singing by the appointment
of David.
19 And he set porters by the gates of the
house of the Lord, that none that was
unclean in anything should enter in.
20 And he took the captains of hundreds,
and the noble men, and the governors of
the people, and all the people of the
land, and he caused the king to come
down out of the house of the Lord, and
they went through the high gate of the
king's house, and set the king upon the
throne of the kingdom.
21 Then all the people of the land
rejoiced, and the city was quiet, after
that they had slain Athaliah with the
sword.