²⁵ So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, ^(A)“Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,

Joash Anointed King in Judah

^4 (A)But in the seventh year ^(B)Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of ^(C)the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord, and he showed them the king's son.

⁶ (^(A)another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace.^[a]

¹⁰ and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.