2 Chronicles 23:14-21

14 Jehoiada the priest sent out the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops, and said to them: “Bring her out between the ranks^[a] and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not put her to death at the temple of the LORD.”

15 So they seized her as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate on the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.

16 Jehoiada then made a covenant that he, the people and the king^[b] would be the LORD’s people.

17 All the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

18 Then Jehoiada placed the oversight of the temple of the LORD in the hands of the Levitical priests, to whom David had made assignments in the temple, to present the burnt offerings of the LORD as written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and singing, as David had ordered.

19 He also stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the LORD’s temple so that no one who was in any way unclean might enter.

20 He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people and all the people of the land and brought the king down from the temple of the LORD. They went into the palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.

21 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was calm, because Athaliah had been slain with the sword.

2 Chronicles 23:14-21 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. Nehemiah 3:28; Jeremiah 31:40
• 2. 2 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Chronicles 34:31; Nehemiah 9:38
• 3. Deuteronomy 13:6-9
• 4. S 1 Chronicles 23:28-32; 2 Chronicles 5:5
• 5. S 1 Chronicles 23:6; S 1 Chronicles 25:6
• 6. 1 Chronicles 9:22
• 7. S 2 Kings 15:35
• 8. S 2 Chronicles 22:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "out from the precincts"
• [b]. Or "covenant between the " Lord"and the people and the king that they" (see 2 Kings 11:17)