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9 And the centurions did according to all the temple of Baal, and broke down his altars,
things that Joiada the priest, had commanded and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly:
them: and takiug every one their men, that went they slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before
in on the sabbath, with them that went out in the altar. And the priest set guards in the house
the sabbath, came to Joiada, the priest. of the Lord.
10 And he gave them the spears, and the arms 19 And he took the centurions, and the bands
of king David, which were in the house of the of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and all the peo-
Lord. ple of the land, and they brought the king from
11 And they stood, having every one their the house of the Lord: and they came by the way
weapons in their hands, from the right side of of the gate of the shieldbearers into the palace,
the temple, unto the left side of the altar, and of and he sat on the throne of the kings.
the temple, about the king. 20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and
12 And he brought forth the king’s son, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the
put the diadem upon him, and the testimony: sword in the king’s house.
and they made him king, and anointed him: and 21 Now Joas was seven years old when he be-
clapping their hands, they said: God save the gan to reign.
king.
13 And Athalia heard the noise of the peo-
ple running: and going in to the people into the Chapter 12

temple of the Lord,
14 She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign:
as the manner was, and the singers, and the and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The
trumpets near him, and all the people of the name of his mother was Sebia, of Bersabee.
land rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and 2 And Joas did that which was right before the
she rent her garments, and cried: A conspiracy, Lord all the days that Joiada, the priest, taught
a conspiracy. him.
15 But Joiada commanded the centurions that 3 But yet he took not away the high places:
were over the army, and said to them: Have her for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense
forth without the precinct of the temple, and in the high places.
whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with 4 And Joas said to the priests: all the money
the sword. For the priest had said: Let her not of the sanctified things, which is brought into the
be slain in the temple of the Lord. temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is
16 And they laid hands on her: and thrust her offered for the price of a soul, and which of their
out by the way by which the horses go in, by the own accord, and of their own free heart, they
palace, and she was slain there. bring into the temple of the Lord:
17 And Joiada made a covenant between the 5 Let the priests take it according to their or-
Lord, and the king, and the people, that they der and repair the house, wheresoever they shall
should be the people of the Lord; and between see any thing that wanteth repairing.
the king and the people. 6 Now till the three and twentieth year of king
18 And all the people of the land went into Joas the priests did not make the repairs of the