2 Kings 11:17-20 - Jehoiada's Reforms

¹⁷ And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people; and in the same way between the king and the people. ¹⁸ Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down: its altars and images were all broken to bits, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars. And the priest put overseers over the Lord's house. ¹⁹ Then he took the captains of hundreds, and the Carians, and the armed men, and all the people of the land; and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord, through the doorway of the armed men, to the king's house. And he took his place on the seat of the kings. ²⁰ So all the people of the land were glad, and the town was quiet; and they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king's house.

¹⁶ And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people. ¹⁷ Then all the people went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down, and its altars and images broken up; and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars.

¹⁸ And Jehoiada put the work and the care of the house of the Lord into the hands of the priests and the Levites, who had been grouped in divisions by David to make burned offerings to the Lord, as it is recorded in the law of Moses, with joy and song as David had said. ¹⁹ And he put door-keepers at the doors of the Lord's house, to see that no one who was unclean in any way might come in ²⁰ Then he took the captains of hundreds and the chiefs and the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord through the higher doorway into the king's house, and put the king on the seat of the kingdom. ²¹ So all the people of the land were glad and the town was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death with the sword