¹⁶And Jehoiada made^g a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people. ¹⁷Then all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down. And they smashed his altars and his images, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. ¹⁸And Jehoiada placed appointees at the house of Yahweh under the hand of the Levitical priests whom David had allotted to the house of Yahweh to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh as was written in the law of Moses, with joy and with song, according to the order of David.^h ¹⁹And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahweh so that no person unclean with respect to any matter could enter. ²⁰And he took the commanders of hundreds, the noblemen, the governors over the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of Yahweh. And they came through the upper gate to the house of the king, and they set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. ²¹So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been killed with the sword.

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Footnotes

gLiterally “cut”
hLiterally “hands of David”