2 Chronicles 23:16
And Yehoyada' made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be a people unto the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 5:2The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:1(28:69) These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he had made with them in Horeb.
Joshua 24:21And the people said unto Joshua, No; nevertheless the Lord will we serve.
2 Chronicles 15:12And they entered into the covenant to seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
2 Chronicles 15:15And all Judah rejoiced because of the oath; for with all their heart had they sworn, and with their whole desire did they seek him, and he let himself be found by them: and the Lord gave them rest on every side.
2 Chronicles 34:31And the king stood up on his stand, and he made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that are written in this book.
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 →