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2 Chronicles 23:16

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.

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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

15So they seized her as she went into the entrance of the Horse Gate of the king's house, and there they killed her.

17So all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down. They smashed Baal's altars and his images to pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of those altars.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:2Yahweh our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:1These are the words that Yahweh commanded Moses to tell the people of Israel in the land of Moab, words that were added to the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.

Joshua 24:21But the people said to Joshua, “No, we will worship Yahweh.”

2 Chronicles 15:12They entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their soul.

2 Chronicles 15:15All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and they sought God with their whole desire, and he was found by them. Yahweh gave them peace all around them.

2 Chronicles 34:31The king stood in his place and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his regulations, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to obey 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 →

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