2 Chronicles 23

English Standard Version

Joash Made King

23 ^(A)But in the seventh year Jehoiada took courage and entered into a covenant with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri. ²And they went about through ^(B)Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. ³And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada^[a] said to them, “Behold, the king's son! Let him reign, ^(C)as the Lord spoke concerning the sons of David. ⁴This is the thing that you shall do: ^(D)of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers, ⁵and one third shall be at the king's house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord. ⁶Let no one enter the house of the Lord except the priests ^(E)and ministering Levites. They may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the Lord. ⁷The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever enters the house shall be put to death. Be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.”

⁸The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss ^(F)the divisions. ⁹And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of God. ¹⁰And he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house. ¹¹Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him ^(G)the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, ^(H)“Long live the king.”

Athaliah Executed

¹²When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went into the house of the Lord to the people. ¹³And when she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers with their musical instruments leading in the celebration. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!” ¹⁴Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword.” For the priest said, “Do not put her to death in the house of the Lord.” ¹⁵So they laid hands on her,^[b] and she went into the entrance of ^(I)the horse gate of the king's house, and they put her to death there.

Jehoiada's Reforms

¹⁶And Jehoiada 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, ^(J)and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. ¹⁸And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of ^(K)the Levitical priests and the Levites ^(L)whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, ^(M)as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, ^(N)according to the order of David. ¹⁹He stationed ^(O)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 ^(P)through the upper gate to the king's house. And 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 put to death with the sword.

Footnotes

2 Chronicles 23:3 Hebrew he
2 Chronicles 23:15 Or they made a passage for her

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

English Standard Version

He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions

¹³Behold, ^(A)my servant shall act wisely;^[a]
    he shall be high and lifted up,
    and shall be exalted.
¹⁴As many were astonished at you—
    ^(B)his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
    and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
¹⁵so ^(C)shall he sprinkle^[b] many nations.
    ^(D)Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
^(E)for that which has not been told them they see,
    and that which they have not heard they understand.
53 ^(F)Who has believed what he has heard from us?^[c]
    And to whom has ^(G)the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    ^(H)and like a root out of dry ground;
^(I)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    and no beauty that we should desire him.
³^(J)He was despised and rejected^[d] by men,
    a man of sorrows^[e] and acquainted with^[f] grief;^[g]
and as one from whom men hide their faces^[h]
    he was despised, and ^(K)we esteemed him not.

⁴^(L)Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    ^(M)smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵^(N)But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    ^(O)and with his wounds we are healed.
⁶^(P)All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^(Q)and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
    ^(R)yet he opened not his mouth;
^(S)like a ^(T)lamb that is led to the slaughter,
    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he opened not his mouth.
⁸By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
    and as for his generation, ^(U)who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
    stricken for the transgression of my people?
⁹And they made his grave with the wicked
    ^(V)and with a rich man in his death,
although ^(W)he had done no violence,
    and there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰Yet ^(X)it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
    he has put him to grief;^[i]
^(Y)when his soul makes^[j] an offering for guilt,
    he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
^(Z)the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
¹¹Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see^[k] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall ^(AA)the righteous one, my servant,
    ^(AB)make many to be accounted righteous,
    ^(AC)and he shall bear their iniquities.
¹²^(AD)Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,^[l]
    ^(AE)and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,^[m]
because he poured out his soul to death
    and was numbered with the transgressors;
^(AF)yet he bore the sin of many,
    and makes intercession for the transgressors.