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Athaliah reigned over the land.</p> <a name="4" id="4"></a><p class="hdg">Joash Anointed King in Judah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_chronicles/23.htm">2 Chronicles 23:1-11</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and showed them the king's son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He commanded them, saying, "This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh around the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!"</p> <a name="13" id="13"></a><p class="hdg">The Death of Athaliah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_chronicles/23.htm#12">2 Chronicles 23:12-15</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and of] the people, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks. Kill him who follows her with the sword." For the priest said, "Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house. She was slain there.</p> <a name="17" id="17"></a><p class="hdg">Jehoiada Restores the Worship of God<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_chronicles/23.htm#16">2 Chronicles 23:16-21</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. 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