mkjv - 2Chronicles:22-23

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:1 @ And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place. For the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older ones. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:2 @ Ahaziah's [dynasty was] forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name [was] Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:3 @ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab. For his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:4 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab. For they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his ruin.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:5 @ He also walked after their advice and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians struck Jehoram.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:6 @ And he returned to be healed in Jezreel, because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:7 @ And by coming to Jehoram, the destruction of Ahaziah was of God. He went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:8 @ And it happened when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, and found the rulers of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, the servants of Ahaziah, he killed them.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:9 @ And he looked for Ahaziah. And they caught him (for he was hidden in Samaria), and brought him to Jehu. And when they had killed him, they buried him because they said, He [is] the son of Jehoshaphat who looked to the LORD with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had no power still to keep the kingdom.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:10 @ And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, and she arose and spoke to [destroy] all the royal seed of the house of Judah.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:11 @ But Jehoshabeath the daughter of the king took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons who were killed. And she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. And Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah) hid him from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.

mkjv@2Chronicles:22:12 @ And he was with them six years, hidden in the house of God. And Athaliah reigned over the land.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:1 @ And in the seventh year Jehoiada made himself strong. And he took the commanders 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.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:2 @ 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.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:3 @ And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD has said of the sons of David.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:4 @ This [is] the thing that you shall do. A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, [shall be] keepers of the doors.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:5 @ And a third part [shall be] at the king's house. And a third part shall be at the gate of the foundation. And all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:6 @ But let none come into the house of the LORD except the priests, and those of the Levites who minister. They shall go in, for they [are] holy. But all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:7 @ And the Levites shall surround the king, each man with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes into the house, he shall be put to death. But you be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:8 @ And the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded. And every man took his men who were to come in on the sabbath, with the ones who were to go [out] on the sabbath. For Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:9 @ And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the commanders of hundreds king David's spears and bucklers and shields, which [were] in the house of God.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:10 @ And he set all the people, each 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.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:11 @ And they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said, Let the king live!

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:12 @ And Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, and she came to the people into the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:13 @ And she looked, and behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entrance, and the rulers and the trumpets by the king. And all the people of the land [were] rejoicing and sounding with trumpets, and the singers with instruments of music, and giving signals to praise. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, Treason! Treason!

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:14 @ And Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, Take her out of the ranks. And whoever follows her shall be killed with the sword. For the priest said, Do not kill her [in the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:15 @ And they laid hands on her; and she came to the entrance of the Gate of the Horses, beside the king's house, and they executed her there.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:16 @ And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:17 @ And all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down, and smashed his altars and his images. And they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:18 @ And Jehoiada chose the officers 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 joy and with singing, by the hands of David.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:19 @ And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that the unclean in any way could not go in.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:20 @ And he took the commanders of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the LORD. And they came through the Upper Gate into the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.

mkjv@2Chronicles:23:21 @ And all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city was quiet after they had killed Athaliah with the sword.

mkjv@2Chronicles:24:1 @ Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign. And he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba.