¹⁷ Then ^(A)Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord’s people, also ^(B)between the king and the people.

² The king went up to the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great; and ^(A)he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant ^(B)which was found in the house of the Lord. ^3 (C)The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, ^(D)to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people ^[a]entered into the covenant.