Jehoiada Cuts a Covenant

¹⁶ Then ^(A)Jehoiada cut a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they would be the people of Yahweh. ¹⁷ And all the people came to the house of Baal and tore it down, and his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they ^(B)killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. ¹⁸ And Jehoiada placed the assignments concerning the house of Yahweh in the hand of ^(C)the Levitical priests, ^(D)whom David had divided by lot to be over the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses—^(E)with gladness and singing according to the ^[a]order of David. ¹⁹ And he caused ^(F)the gatekeepers of the house of Yahweh to stand, so that no one would enter who was in any way unclean.