2 Chronicles 23:17-19

New International Reader's Version

¹⁷ All the people went to Baal’s temple. They tore it down. They smashed the altars and the statues of gods. They killed Mattan in front of the altars. He was the priest of Baal.

¹⁸ Then Jehoiada put the priests, who were Levites, in charge of the Lord’s temple. David had given them their duties in the temple. He had appointed them to sacrifice burnt offerings to the Lord. He wanted them to do it in keeping with what was written in the Law of Moses. David wanted them to sing and be full of joy. ¹⁹ Jehoiada stationed guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple. No one who was “unclean” in any way could enter.