1In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

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

2They went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' households 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

3All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God's house. He said to them, "Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the Lord has spoken concerning 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

4This is the thing that you shall do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds.

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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 shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people shall be in the courts of the Lord's house.

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

6But let no one come into the house of the Lord, except the priests, and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow the Lord's instructions.

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

7The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes 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 Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the shift.

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

9Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in God's house.

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

10He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around 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

11Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, "Long live the king!"

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

12When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house 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 she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, "Treason! Treason!"

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

14Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Do not kill her in the Lord's house."

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

15So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house; and 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

16Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the Lord's people.

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

17All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan 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

18Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of the Lord under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.

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

19He set the porters at the gates of the house of the Lord, that no one who was unclean in anything 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

20He took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the Lord: and they came through the upper gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.

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

21So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had 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