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2 Kings 11:17
“Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 11
Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks. Kill him who follows her with the sword." For the priest said, "Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh.
So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house. She was slain there.
Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people.
All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.
He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
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The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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