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14 And Jehoiada the priest brings out the heads of the hundreds, inspectors of the force, and says to them, “Take her out from within the rows, and he who has gone after her is put to death by the sword”; for the priest said, “Do not put her to death [in] the house of YHWH.” 15 And they make sides for her, and she comes to the entrance of the Horse Gate at the house of the king, and they put her to death there. 16 And Jehoiada makes a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, to be for a people to YHWH; 17 and all the people enter the house of Ba‘al, and break it down, indeed, they have broken his altars and his images, and they have slain Mattan priest of Ba‘al before the altars. 18 And Jehoiada puts the offices of the house of YHWH into the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had apportioned over the house of YHWH, to cause the burnt-offerings of YHWH to ascend, as written in the Law of Moses, with joy, and with singing, by the hands of David; 19 and he stations the gatekeepers over the gates of the house of YHWH, and the unclean in anything do not go in. 20 And he takes the heads of the hundreds, and the majestic ones, and the rulers among the people, and all the people of the land, and brings down the king from the house of YHWH, and they come in through the high gate to the house of the king, and cause the king to sit on the throne of the kingdom. 21 And all the people of the land rejoice, and the city has been quiet, and they have put Athaliah to death by the sword. 2 Chronicles 23:14-21, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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