¹⁶And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be the people of Jehovah. ¹⁷And all the people went into the house of Baal, and broke it down; and they broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. ¹⁸And Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of Jehovah under the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had set by classes over the house of Jehovah to offer up Jehovah’s burnt-offerings, as it is written in the law of Moses, —with rejoicing and with singing according to the directions of David. ¹⁹And he set the doorkeepers at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that no one unclean in anything should enter in. ²⁰And he took the captains of the 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 Jehovah; and they came through the upper gate into the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. ²¹And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; and they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

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