2 Kings 11:17

And Jehoiada solemnised a covenant between Yahweh, and the king, and the people, that they should become a people unto Yahweh,—also between the king and the people.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they should be the LORD’S people; between the king also and the people.

In Context

16So they made way for her, and she entered the road by which the horses approached the house of the king, and was slain there.

18And all the people of the land entered the house of Baal, and brake it down, his altars and his images, brake they in pieces, utterly, and, Mattan the priest of Baal, they slew before the altars,—and the priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:1These, are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to solemnise with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab,—besides the covenant, which he solemnised with them in Horeb.

1 Samuel 10:25Then Samuel declared unto the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a scroll, and laid it up before Yahweh. And Samuel sent away all the people, every man to his own house.

2 Kings 11:4But, in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent and took the captains over hundreds, of the Carian body-guard, and of the runners, and brought them unto him, in the house of Yahweh,—and, when he had solemnised a Covenant with them, and put them on oath, in the house of Yahweh, then shewed he them the king’s son;

1 Chronicles 11:3Thus came all the elders of Israel unto the king, to Hebron, and David solemnised to them a covenant in Hebron, before Yahweh,—and they anointed David to be king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh, through Samuel.

2 Chronicles 23:16And Jehoiada solemnised a covenant, between himself and all the people, and the king,—that they should become a people unto Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 34:31And the king stood in his place, and solemnised the covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, 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 Kings 11:14-17

13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord . 14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. 15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the… Read the whole commentary →

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