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2 Chronicles 23 Summary
Jehoiada Restores the True King
The priest Jehoiada hides Ahaziah's young son Joash in the temple for six years while Athaliah rules. In the seventh year, Jehoiada organizes the military captains, Levites, and people in a covenant to restore the rightful king. They bring out Joash, crown him, and anoint him with the testimony. When Athaliah hears the noise and sees the king at the temple pillar, she cries treason. Jehoiada commands her executed at the horse gate, then leads the people to tear down the house of Baal and restore proper worship.
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2 Chronicles 23:1-3
“And in 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. And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.”
2 Chronicles 23:11
“Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.”
2 Chronicles 23:15
“So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.”
2 Chronicles 23:16-17
“And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people. Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.”
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