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II Chronicles Chapter 23

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II Chronicles

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Second Chronicles 23 records how in the seventh year the high priest Jehoiada strengthens himself, gathers Levites and family heads from all Judah, and makes a covenant with them in the house of the Lord to bring out the king's son. He organizes priests and Levites with weapons to surround the young Joash, crowns him, gives him the testimony, and proclaims him king, while Athaliah cries treason and is put to death outside the house of the Lord. Jehoiada then renews the covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people, destroys the house of Baal and its priest, stations guards at the temple, and brings the king to the throne amid the people's rejoicing, so the city rests in quiet.

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(1) And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
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II Kings 11:4II Kings 11:5II Kings 11:6II Kings 11:7II Kings 11:8II Kings 11:9II Kings 11:10II Kings 11:11II Kings 11:12II Kings 11:13II Kings 11:14II Kings 11:15

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II Kings 11:4Deuteronomy 1:15II Kings 11:9I Chronicles 28:1I Chronicles 6:9II Chronicles 21:2

(2) And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
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Psalms 112:5Matthew 10:16Ephesians 5:15II Chronicles 11:13II Chronicles 11:14II Chronicles 11:15II Chronicles 11:16II Chronicles 11:17I Chronicles 15:12I Chronicles 24:6

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32II Chronicles 24:5Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38

(3) And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
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II Chronicles 23:16II Samuel 5:3II Kings 11:17I Chronicles 11:3II Chronicles 6:16II Chronicles 7:18II Chronicles 21:7II Samuel 7:12II Samuel 7:16I Kings 2:4I Kings 9:5I Chronicles 9:9

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Esther 8:8Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3Esther 3:3Esther 3:12

(4) This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;
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I Chronicles 23:3I Chronicles 23:4I Chronicles 23:5I Chronicles 23:6I Chronicles 24:3I Chronicles 24:4I Chronicles 24:5I Chronicles 24:6Luke 1:8Luke 1:9I Chronicles 26:13I Chronicles 26:14

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Revelation 8:12II Samuel 18:2Ezekiel 5:2Ezekiel 5:12II Kings 11:6II Chronicles 23:5

(5) And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
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II Kings 11:5II Kings 11:6Ezekiel 44:2Ezekiel 44:3Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 46:3Acts 3:2

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Revelation 8:12II Samuel 18:2Ezekiel 5:2Ezekiel 5:12II Kings 11:6Revelation 8:9

(6) But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
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II Kings 11:6II Kings 11:7I Chronicles 23:28I Chronicles 23:29I Chronicles 23:30I Chronicles 23:31I Chronicles 23:32

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Numbers 3:45II Chronicles 31:2Nehemiah 10:38

(7) And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
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II Kings 11:8II Kings 11:9Exodus 19:12Exodus 19:13Exodus 21:14Numbers 3:10Numbers 3:38

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II Kings 11:8Proverbs 1:27II Chronicles 13:9II Chronicles 4:2Numbers 1:51I Kings 14:5

(8) So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
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II Kings 11:9I Chronicles 24:1I Chronicles 24:2I Chronicles 24:3I Chronicles 24:4I Chronicles 24:5I Chronicles 24:6I Chronicles 24:7I Chronicles 24:8I Chronicles 24:9I Chronicles 24:10I Chronicles 24:11

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II Kings 11:9Nehemiah 13:19II Chronicles 31:2Exodus 31:15Exodus 31:16Leviticus 23:3

(9) Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
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I Samuel 21:9II Samuel 8:7

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Deuteronomy 1:15II Kings 11:10II Chronicles 25:5II Kings 11:9I Chronicles 28:1Numbers 31:14

(10) And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
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II Kings 11:11II Chronicles 6:12Exodus 40:6

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II Kings 11:11Ezra 5:14Jeremiah 7:4I Corinthians 3:17I Kings 6:5Ezra 6:5

(11) Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
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II Chronicles 22:11II Kings 11:12II Samuel 1:10Psalms 21:3Psalms 89:39Psalms 132:18Hebrews 2:9James 1:12James 2:5Revelation 4:4Revelation 4:10Revelation 5:10

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II Kings 11:12Esther 8:8Esther 3:3Esther 3:12

(12) Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
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II Kings 11:13II Kings 11:14II Kings 11:15II Kings 11:16II Kings 9:32II Kings 9:33II Kings 9:34II Kings 9:35II Kings 9:36II Kings 9:37

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II Kings 7:6Ezra 3:13Ezekiel 1:24Ezekiel 3:13

(13) And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
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Psalms 14:5II Chronicles 34:31II Kings 23:3Numbers 10:1Numbers 10:2Numbers 10:3Numbers 10:4Numbers 10:5Numbers 10:6Numbers 10:7Numbers 10:8Numbers 10:9

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II Kings 11:14II Chronicles 7:6Joshua 6:13II Chronicles 5:13II Chronicles 13:14Judges 5:3

(14) Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.
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Exodus 21:14II Kings 10:25II Kings 11:8II Kings 11:15Ezekiel 9:7

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II Kings 11:15Deuteronomy 1:15Numbers 31:14Numbers 31:48II Samuel 24:4I Chronicles 26:26

(15) So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
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Nehemiah 3:28II Chronicles 22:10Judges 1:7Psalms 5:6Psalms 55:23Matthew 7:2James 2:13Revelation 16:5Revelation 16:6Revelation 16:7

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Esther 3:3Esther 4:2Esther 8:8Zechariah 14:10

(16) And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
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II Chronicles 15:12II Chronicles 15:14II Chronicles 29:10II Chronicles 34:31II Chronicles 34:32Deuteronomy 5:2Deuteronomy 5:3Deuteronomy 29:1Deuteronomy 29:2Deuteronomy 29:3Deuteronomy 29:4Deuteronomy 29:5

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Leviticus 26:42II Kings 11:17II Kings 23:3

(17) Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
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II Chronicles 34:4II Chronicles 34:7II Kings 10:25II Kings 10:26II Kings 10:27II Kings 10:28II Kings 11:18II Kings 18:4Deuteronomy 12:3Isaiah 2:18Zechariah 13:2Zechariah 13:3

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II Kings 11:18II Chronicles 34:4II Kings 10:27II Kings 18:4II Chronicles 31:1II Kings 23:12

(18) Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
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I Chronicles 23:1I Chronicles 23:2I Chronicles 23:3I Chronicles 23:4I Chronicles 23:5I Chronicles 23:6I Chronicles 23:7I Chronicles 23:8I Chronicles 23:9I Chronicles 23:10I Chronicles 23:11I Chronicles 23:12

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I Kings 8:64II Chronicles 31:2II Chronicles 31:3Numbers 29:39Nehemiah 12:44II Chronicles 7:7

(19) And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
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I Chronicles 9:23I Chronicles 9:24I Chronicles 26:1I Chronicles 26:2I Chronicles 26:3I Chronicles 26:4I Chronicles 26:5I Chronicles 26:6I Chronicles 26:7I Chronicles 26:8I Chronicles 26:9I Chronicles 26:10

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Leviticus 5:2Revelation 21:13Ezekiel 26:10Ezekiel 44:17Nehemiah 13:19Leviticus 7:21

(20) And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
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II Kings 11:9II Kings 11:10II Kings 11:19

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II Kings 11:19Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Deuteronomy 1:15Esther 3:3Esther 3:12

(21) And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
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II Kings 11:20Psalms 58:10Psalms 58:11Proverbs 11:10Revelation 18:20Revelation 19:1Revelation 19:2Revelation 19:3Revelation 19:4

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II Kings 11:2Ezekiel 32:25II Kings 11:20

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