2 Kings 11:17-20
1599 Geneva Bible
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, [a]and the King and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people: likewise between the [b]King and the people.
18 Then all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it with his altars, and his images brake they down courageously, and slew Mattan the Priest of Baal before the [c]altars: and the [d]Priest set a guard over the house of the Lord.
19 Then he took the captains of hundreds, and the other captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land: and they brought the King from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the King’s house: and he sat him down on the throne of the kings.
20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: [e]for they had slain Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house.
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- 2 Kings 11:17 That both the King and the people should maintain the true worship of God and destroy all idolatry.
- 2 Kings 11:17 That he should govern and they obey in the fear of God.
- 2 Kings 11:18 Even in the place where he had blasphemed God, and thought to have been helped by his idol, there God poured his vengeance upon him.
- 2 Kings 11:18 To wit, Jehoiada.
- 2 Kings 11:20 Which by her cruelty and persecution had vexed the whole land before.
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