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2 Kings 11 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
3 And he was with her six years secretly in the house of our Lord. Moreover Athalia reigned over the land.
Joash Anointed King of Judah
4 And in the seventh year Joiada sent and taking the centurions and the soldiers brought them in to him into the temple of our Lord, and made a covenant with them: and adjuring them in the house of our Lord, shewed them the king's son:
15 But Joiada commanded the centurions, that were over the army, and said to them: Lead her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be strucken with the sword. For the Priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of our Lord.
18 And all the people of the land entered into the temple of Baal, and destroyed his altars, and his images they brake in pieces stoutly: Mathan also the priest of Baal they slew before the altar. And the priest set guards in the house of our Lord.
19 And he took the centurions, and the legions of Cerethi and Phelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from the house of our Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the shieldbearers into the palace, and he sat upon the throne of the kings.
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