1And in the seventh year Joiada being encouraged, took the captains of hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel the son of Johanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasias the son of Adaias, and Elisaphat the son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them.

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2 Chronicles 15:12, 2 Kings 11:4, 2 Kings 11:20, 1 Samuel 18:3, Nehemiah 9:38

2And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 11:13, 2 Chronicles 11:17, 2 Chronicles 11:13, 2 Chronicles 11:17, 1 Chronicles 24:6

3And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house of God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king's son shall reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of David.

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2 Samuel 7:12, 2 Chronicles 21:7, 2 Chronicles 6:16, 2 Samuel 7:12, 2 Chronicles 21:7

4And this is the thing that you shall do:

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1 Chronicles 9:25, Luke 1:8, Luke 1:9, 1 Chronicles 26:13, 1 Chronicles 26:16

5A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third part at the king's house: and a third at the gate that is called the Foundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

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Ezekiel 44:2, Ezekiel 44:3, 2 Kings 11:5, 2 Kings 11:6, Acts 3:2

6And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests, and they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because they are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the watches of the Lord.

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1 Chronicles 23:28, 1 Chronicles 23:32, 1 Chronicles 23:28, 1 Chronicles 23:32, 2 Kings 11:6

7And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his arms; and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain; and let them be with the king, both coming in, and going out.

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2 Kings 11:8, 2 Kings 11:9, Numbers 3:10, Exodus 19:12, Exodus 19:13

8So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the high priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were under him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high priest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to succeed one another every week.

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1 Chronicles 24:1, 1 Chronicles 24:26, 2 Kings 11:9, 1 Chronicles 24:1, 1 Chronicles 24:26

9And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the shields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house of the Lord.

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2 Samuel 8:7, 1 Samuel 21:9, 2 Samuel 8:7, 1 Samuel 21:9

10And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the right side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the altar, and the temple, round about the king.

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2 Kings 11:11, 2 Chronicles 6:12, Exodus 40:6, 2 Kings 11:11, 2 Chronicles 6:12

11And they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they made him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him: and they prayed for him, and said: God save the king.

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1 Samuel 10:24, 1 Samuel 10:24, Exodus 25:16, Exodus 25:16, 2 Kings 11:12

12Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the Lord.

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2 Kings 9:32, 2 Kings 9:37, 2 Kings 11:13, 2 Kings 11:16, 2 Kings 9:32

13And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance, and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her garments, and said: Treason, treason.

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2 Kings 9:23, Proverbs 11:10, Numbers 10:1, Numbers 10:10, Romans 2:1

14And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of the Lord.

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Ezekiel 9:7, 2 Kings 11:8, 2 Kings 11:15, Exodus 21:14, 2 Kings 10:25

15And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.

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Nehemiah 3:28, Nehemiah 3:28, 2 Chronicles 22:10, Jeremiah 31:40, 2 Chronicles 22:10

16And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.

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2 Kings 11:17, 2 Chronicles 29:10, Nehemiah 9:38, 2 Kings 11:17, 2 Chronicles 29:10

17And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it: and they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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1 Kings 18:40, 1 Kings 18:40, Deuteronomy 12:3, 2 Kings 10:25, 2 Kings 10:28

18And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under the hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the disposition of David.

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Numbers 28:1, Numbers 28:31, 2 Chronicles 5:5, Numbers 28:1, Numbers 28:31

19He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.

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1 Chronicles 26:1, 1 Chronicles 26:32, 1 Chronicles 9:22, 1 Chronicles 9:24, 1 Chronicles 26:1

20And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him through the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal throne.

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2 Kings 11:19, 2 Kings 11:19, 2 Kings 11:9, 2 Kings 11:10, 2 Kings 15:35

21And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword.

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2 Kings 11:20, 2 Kings 11:20, Revelation 18:20, Proverbs 11:10, Psalms 58:10