King James Version2 Chronicles23

2 Chronicles

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.