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The Second
Book of Paralipomenon 23
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And this is the thing that you shall do:
A 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.
And 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.
And 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.
So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that
Joiada the high priest bad 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
Now 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she
was come within the horse gate of the palace, they killed
her there.
And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the
people, and the king, that they should be the people
of the Lord.
And 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.
And 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.
He appointed also porters in the gates of the house
of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing
should enter in.
And 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.
21And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city
was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword. |
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