King James Version2 Kings11

2 Kings

1 And when Athali­ah the moth­er of Ahazi­ah saw that her son was dead, she arose and de­stroyed all the seed roy­al. 2 But Je­hoshe­ba, the daugh­ter of king Jo­ram, sis­ter of Ahazi­ah, took Joash the son of Ahazi­ah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bed­cham­ber from Athali­ah, so that he was not slain. 3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athali­ah did reign over the land. 4 And the sev­enth year Je­hoia­da sent and fetched the rulers over hun­dreds, with the cap­tains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son. 5 And he com­mand­ed them, say­ing, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that en­ter in on the sab­bath shall even be keep­ers of the watch of the king's house; 6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate be­hind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not bro­ken down. 7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sab­bath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king. 8 And ye shall com­pass the king round about, ev­ery man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh with­in the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in. 9 And the cap­tains over the hun­dreds did ac­cord­ing to all things that Je­hoia­da the priest com­mand­ed: and they took ev­ery man his men that were to come in on the sab­bath, with them that should go out on the sab­bath, and came to Je­hoia­da the priest. 10 And to the cap­tains over hun­dreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the tem­ple of the LORD. 11 And the guard stood, ev­ery man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right cor­ner of the tem­ple to the left cor­ner of the tem­ple, along by the al­tar and the tem­ple. 12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and ­gave him the tes­ti­mo­ny; and they made him king, and anoint­ed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king. 13 And when Athali­ah heard the noise of the guard and of the peo­ple, she came to the peo­ple into the tem­ple of the LORD. 14 And when she looked, be­hold, the king stood by a pil­lar, as the man­ner was, and the princes and the trum­peters by the king, and all the peo­ple of the land re­joiced, and blew with trum­pets: and Athali­ah rent her clothes, and cried, Trea­son, Trea­son. 15 But Je­hoia­da the priest com­mand­ed the cap­tains of the hun­dreds, the of­fi­cers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth with­out the ranges: and him that fol­loweth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD. 16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the hors­es came into the king's house: and there was she slain. 17 And Je­hoia­da made a covenant be­tween the LORD and the king and the peo­ple, that they should be the LORD'S peo­ple; be­tween the king also and the peo­ple. 18 And all the peo­ple of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his al­tars and his im­ages brake they in pieces thor­ough­ly, and slew Mat­tan the priest of Baal be­fore the al­tars. And the priest ap­point­ed of­fi­cers over the house of the LORD. 19 And he took the rulers over hun­dreds, and the cap­tains, and the guard, and all the peo­ple of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. 20 And all the peo­ple of the land re­joiced, and the city was in qui­et: and they slew Athali­ah with the sword beside the king's house. 21 Sev­en years old was Je­hoash when he be­gan to reign.