2 Chronicles 23:16-21

Reforms Carried Out

16 Then ¹Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they would be the LORD'S people.

17 And all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down, and they broke in pieces his altars and his images, and ²killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

18 Moreover, Jehoiada placed the offices of the house of the LORD under the authority of ³the Levitical priests, ⁴whom David had assigned over the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses -⁵with rejoicing and singing according to the order of David.

19 He stationed ⁶the gatekeepers of the house of the LORD, so that no one would enter who was in any way unclean

20 ⁷He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the LORD, and came through the upper gate to the king's house. And they placed the king upon the royal throne.

21 So ⁸all of the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quiet. For they had put Athaliah to death with the sword

2 Chronicles 23:16-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 23

The contents of this chapter are the same with 2Ki 11:4-20 and need no other explanation than what may be found in the notes there, to which the reader is referred.

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Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 11:17
• 2. Deuteronomy 13:6-9; 1 Kings 18:40
• 3. 2 Chronicles 5:5
• 4. 1 Chr 23:6, 25-31
• 5. 1 Chronicles 25:1
• 6. 1 Chronicles 9:22
• 7. 2 Kings 11:19
• 8. 2 Kings 11:20

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "hand"
• [b]. Lit "hands of"