2 Kings 11:4

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Summary

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.

Rulers

2 Kings 11:9

1 Chronicles 9:13

Made a covenant

Took an oath

General references

2 Kings 11:21

Bible References

Rulers

The captains did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

besides their kinsmen, heads of their fathers' houses, 1,760, mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God.

Made a covenant

And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people, that they should be the LORD's people, and also between the king and the people.

And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.

And the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

"Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

Took an oath

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.

Then they said, "We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say." And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.

join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.

General references

Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.