2 Chronicles 23:16–21

Reforms Carried Out

¹⁶Then ^aJehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord’s people.

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

¹⁸Moreover, Jehoiada placed the offices of the house of the Lord under the ¹authority of ^athe Levitical priests, ^bwhom David had assigned over the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses—^cwith rejoicing and singing according to the ²order of David.

¹⁹He stationed ^athe gatekeepers of the house of the Lord, so that no one would enter who was in any way unclean.

^20aHe took the captains 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 the Lord, and came through the upper gate to the king’s house. And they placed the king upon the royal throne.

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