2 Kings 11:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
16 Then they laid hands on her, and she went by the way, by the which the horses go to the house of the King, and there was she slain.
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, [a]and the King and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people: likewise between the [b]King and the people.
18 Then all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it with his altars, and his images brake they down courageously, and slew Mattan the Priest of Baal before the [c]altars: and the [d]Priest set a guard over the house of the Lord.
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- 2 Kings 11:17 That both the King and the people should maintain the true worship of God and destroy all idolatry.
- 2 Kings 11:17 That he should govern and they obey in the fear of God.
- 2 Kings 11:18 Even in the place where he had blasphemed God, and thought to have been helped by his idol, there God poured his vengeance upon him.
- 2 Kings 11:18 To wit, Jehoiada.
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