And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when
he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see
Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
[7] And the destruction of Ahaziah was of
God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of
Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
[8] And it came to pass, that, when
Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of
the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
[9] And he sought Ahaziah: and they
caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they
buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.
So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
[10] But when Athaliah the mother of
Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
[11]
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among
the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter
of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah,
so that she slew him not.
[12] And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned
over the land.
2Chr.23
[1] And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah
the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah
the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
[2] And they went about
in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel,
and they came to Jerusalem.
[3] And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house
of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons
of David.
[4] This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests
and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;
[5] And a third part shall be at the king's house; and
a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the
LORD.
[6] But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the
Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
[7] And
the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever
else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and
when he goeth out.
[8] So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest
had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that
were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
[9] Moreover Jehoiada
the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king
David's, which were in the house of God.
[10] And he set all the people, every man having his weapon
in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the
temple, by the king round about.
[11] Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown,
and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said,
God save the king.
[12] Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king,
she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
[13] And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at
his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land
rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to
sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
[14] Then Jehoiada the priest
brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of
the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not
in the house of the LORD.
[15] So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of
the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
[16] And Jehoiada made a covenant between
him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people.
[17]
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in
pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
[18] Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of
the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house
of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing