2 Chronicles 23:19

19 And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahweh so that no person unclean with respect to any matter could enter

2 Chronicles 23:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 23:19

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 23:1).

2 Chronicles 23:19 In-Context

17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down. And they smashed his altars and his images, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

18 And Jehoiada placed appointees [at] the house of Yahweh under the hand of the Levitical priests whom David had allotted to the house of Yahweh to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh as was written in the law of Moses, with joy and with song, according to the {order of David}.

19 And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahweh so that no person unclean with respect to any matter could enter

20 And he took the commanders of hundreds, the noblemen, the governors over the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of Yahweh. And they came through the upper gate [to] the house of the king, and they set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet [after] Athaliah had been killed with the sword.