¹⁶ Then Jehoiada made a ^(A)covenant between himself, the people, and the king, that they should be the Lord’s people. ¹⁷ And all the people went to the ^[a]temple of Baal, and tore it down. They broke in pieces its altars and images, and ^(B)killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. ¹⁸ Also Jehoiada appointed the oversight of the house of the Lord to the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had ^(C)assigned in the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the ^(D)Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was established by David. ¹⁹ And he set the ^(E)gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the Lord, so that no one who was in any way unclean should enter.