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

And the rulers of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each man took his men, going in on the sabbath, with those going out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

and their brothers, heads of their fathers' house, seventeen hundred and sixty very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

Made a covenant

And Jehoiada made a covenant between Jehovah and the king and the people, that they should be the people of Jehovah; also between the king and the people.

And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah 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 which was written in this Book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

And Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

And Jonathan and David cut a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

And the two of them cut a covenant before Jehovah. And David stayed in the forest, and Jonathan went to his house.

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

And it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah, the God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.

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

And because of all this we are cutting a sure covenant, and write it, and our princes, Levites, and priests are sealing it.

Took an oath

And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.

As Jehovah your God lives, there is no nation nor kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they said, He is not there, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they did not find you.

And they said, We will restore, and will ask nothing from them. So we will do as you say. Then I called the priests and took an oath from them that they should do according to this promise.

were holding fast to their brothers, their honored ones. And they entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's Law which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to be careful to do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes.

General references

Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.