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¹ AndOf the reign of Athaliah or after the death of Ahaziah.in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

² And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and theMeaning of Judah and Benjamin. To see why they are called Israel, {{See 2Ch_15:17}}chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

³ And al the Congregation made a couenant with the King in the house of God: and he sayde vnto them, Behold, the Kings sonne must reigne, as the Lord hath sayd of the sonnes of Dauid.

⁴ This is it that ye shal do, The third part of you that come on the Sabbath of the Priests, and the Leuites, shalbe porters of the doores.

⁵ And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of theWhich was the chief gate of the temple toward the east.foundation: and all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD.

⁶ But let none come into the house of the Lord, saue the Priests, & the Leuites that minister: they shal go in, for they are holy: but all the people shal keepe the watch of the Lord.

⁷ And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever [else] comethMeaning to make any tumult, or to hinder their enterprise.into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

⁸ So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them thatWho had finished their course on the Sabbath and so the other part entered to keep their turn.were to go [out] on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

⁹ And Iehoiada the Priest deliuered to the captaines of hundreths speares, and shieldes, and bucklers which had bene King Dauids, and were in the house of God.

¹⁰ And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and theMeaning the most holy place where the ark stood.temple, by the king round about.

¹¹ Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and [gave him] theThat is, the book of the law or as some read they put on him his royal apparel.testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.

¹² But when Athaliah heard the noyse of the people running & praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord.

¹³ And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said,Declaring her vile impudency who having unjustly and by murder usurped the crown would still have defeated the true possessor and therefore called true obedience treason.Treason, Treason.

¹⁴ Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whosoTo join with her party and to maintain her authority.followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.

¹⁵ So they layde hands on her: and when she was come to the entring of the horsegate by the Kings house, they slew her there.

¹⁶ And Jehoiada made aThat they would only serve him and renounce all idolatry.covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.

¹⁷ Then all the people went to the house of Baal, andAccording to their covenant made to the Lord.brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slewAs the Lord commanded in his law both for the person and also the city, (Deu_13:9, Deu_13:15).Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

¹⁸ And Iehoiada appointed officers for the house of the Lorde, vnder the handes of the Priestes and Leuites, whome Dauid had distributed for the house of the Lorde, to offer burnt offrings vnto the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with reioycing and singing by the appoyntment of Dauid.

¹⁹ And he set porters by the gates of ye house of the Lord, that none that was vncleane in any thing, should enter in.

²⁰ And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through theWhich was the principal gate that the king might be seen by all the people.high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

²¹ And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet,For where a tyrant and an idolater reigns there can be no peace for the plagues of God are always among such people.after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.