2 Chronicles 23:16

Then Jehoiada formed a covenant between himself and the entire people, and the king, so that they would be the people of the Lord.

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In The King James Version

And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD’S people.

In Context

15And they laid hands on her neck. And when she had entered the gate for the horses at the king’s house, they put her to death there.

17And so, all the people entered into the house of Baal, and they destroyed it. And they broke apart his altars and idols. Also, they put to death Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:2The Lord our God formed a covenant with us at Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:1These are the words of the covenant which the Lord instructed Moses to form with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, beside that covenant which he struck with them at Horeb.

Joshua 24:21And the people said to Joshua, “By no means will it be as you are saying, but we will serve the Lord.”

2 Chronicles 15:12And he entered, according to custom, in order to confirm the covenant, so that they would seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with their whole heart and with their whole soul.

2 Chronicles 15:15all who were in Judah swore with a curse. For with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought and found him. And the Lord granted rest on all sides to them.

2 Chronicles 34:31And standing up at his tribunal, he struck a covenant before the Lord, so that he would walk after him, and would keep his precepts and testimonies and justifications, with his whole heart and with his whole soul, and so that he would do the things that were written in that volume, which he had read.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 23:13-21

Joash Crowned and Athaliah Slain. ( b. c. 878.) 12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord : 13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason. 14… Read the whole commentary →

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