2 Chronicles 23:16–21

Jehoiada Cuts a Covenant

¹⁶Then ^aJehoiada cut a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they would be the people of Yahweh.

¹⁷And all the people came to the house of Baal and tore it down, and his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they ^akilled Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

¹⁸And Jehoiada placed the assignments concerning the house of Yahweh in the hand of ^athe Levitical priests, ^bwhom David had divided by lot to be over the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses—^cwith gladness and singing according to the ¹order of David.

¹⁹And he caused ^athe gatekeepers of the house of Yahweh to stand, so that no one would enter who was in any way unclean.

^20aAnd he took the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of Yahweh, and they came through the upper gate to the king’s house. And they sat the king upon the royal throne.

²¹So ^aall of the people of the land were glad, and the city was quiet. For they had put Athaliah to death with the sword.