2 Chronicles 23:16
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and the people, and the king, that the people should be the Lord’s.
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Deuteronomy 5:2The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:1These 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 made with them in Horeb.
Joshua 24:21And the people said to Joshua, Nay, but we will serve the Lord.
2 Chronicles 15:12And he entered into a covenant that they should seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.
2 Chronicles 15:15And all Judah rejoiced concerning the oath: for they swore with all their heart, and they sought him with all their desires; and he was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round about.
2 Chronicles 34:31And the king stood at a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk before the Lord, to keep his commandments and testimonies, and his ordinances, with all his heart and with all his soul, so as to perform the words of the covenant that were 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 →