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and a third part
shall be at the gate of Sur; {Heb. turning aside}; and a third part at the gate behind the guard; so ye shall have the watch of the house of Mesah. {Heb. broken down}
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And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
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And ye shall compass the king round about, each man with his weapons in his hand; and he that comes within these orders shall be slain. Ye must be with the king as he goes out and as he comes in.
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And the captains over the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada, the priest, commanded; and each man took his men that were to come in on the sabbath with those that should go out on the sabbath and came to Jehoiada, the priest.
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And the priest gave the captains over hundreds King David’s spears and shields that
were in the house of the LORD.
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And the guard stood, each man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the house to the left corner of the house, next to the altar and the house.
12
Then he brought forth the king’s son and put the crown upon him and
gave him the testimony, and they made him king by anointing him; and they clapped their hands and said,
Long live the king.
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And when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running, she came to the people into the house of the LORD;
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and when she looked, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as was his right, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced and blew with trumpets. Then Athaliah rent her clothes and cried, Treason, Treason.
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Then Jehoiada, the priest, commanded the captains of the hundreds that governed the host and said unto them, Take her forth outside the order of the house and kill with the sword any that follow her. (For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.)
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And they laid hands on her, and she went by the way by which the horsemen enter into the king’s house, and there she was slain.