¹⁶Jehoiada 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, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars.^* ¹⁸Jehoiada assigned the care of the house of the Lord to the Levitical priests whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.^* ¹⁹He stationed the 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 through the upper gate to the king’s house. 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 killed with the sword.

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Cross references

*Deut 13:9
*1 Chr 23:6, 30, 31; 25:1, 2, 6; 2 Chr 5:5
*1 Chr 9:22
*2 Kings 11:19