|
2 Kings 11
- 1
- And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
- 2
- But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of
Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's
sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the
bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
- 3
- And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six
years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
- 4
- And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the
rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him
into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of
them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
- 5
- And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye
shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be
keepers of the watch of the king's house;
- 6
- And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a
third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the
house, that it be not broken down.
- 7
- And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath,
even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
- 8
- And ye shall compass the king round about, every man
with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be
slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
- 9
- And the captains over the hundreds did according to all
things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men
that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the
sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
- 10
- And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give
king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
- 11
- And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his
hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left
corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
- 12
- And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown
upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed
him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
- 13
- And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of
the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
- 14
- And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar,
as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her
clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
- 15
- But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without
the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had
said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
- 16
- And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by
the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
- 17
- And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the
king and the people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the king
also and the people.
- 18
- And all the people of the land went into the house of
Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces
thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the
priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
- 19
- And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains,
and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king
from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to
the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
- 20
- And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city
was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
- 21
- Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
|
|
