2 Chronicles 23:16-19
New English Translation
16 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the Lord.[a] 17 All the people went and demolished[b] the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols.[c] They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. 18 Jehoiada then assigned the duties of the Lord’s temple to the priests, the Levites whom David had assigned to the Lord’s temple. They were responsible for offering burnt sacrifices to the Lord with joy and music, according to[d] the law of Moses and the edict of David. 19 He posted guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.
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- 2 Chronicles 23:16 tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and [between] all the people and [between] the king, to become a people for the Lord.”
- 2 Chronicles 23:17 tn Or “tore down.”
- 2 Chronicles 23:17 tn Or “images.”
- 2 Chronicles 23:18 tn Heb “as it is written in.”
2 Chronicles 23:16-19
World English Bible
16 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people. 17 All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 18 Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered. 19 He set the gatekeepers at the gates of Yahweh’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
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