2 Chronicles 23:16–21

Jehoiada’s Reforms

¹⁶And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the Lord’s people. ¹⁷Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, ^vand they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. ¹⁸And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of ^wthe Levitical priests and the Levites ^xwhom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, ^yas it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, ^zaccording to the order of David. ¹⁹He stationed ^athe gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the Lord so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean. ²⁰And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, marching ^bthrough the upper gate to the king’s house. And they set the king on the royal throne. ²¹So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword.