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2 Chronicles 23:16

And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covenant;   Decision;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Covenant;   Covenants and Vows;   Jehoiada;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Athaliah;   Joash or Jehoash;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Athaliah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Athaliah ;   Jehoiada ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoiada;   Joash;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Anoint;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jehoiada;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joash;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, the king, and the people that they would be the Lord’s people.
Hebrew Names Version
Yehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD's people.
King James Version
And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the Lord 's people.
English Standard Version
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the Lord 's people.
New Century Version
Then Jehoiada made an agreement with the people and the king that they would be the Lord 's special people.
New English Translation
Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they would be the LORD'S people.
New American Standard Bible
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they would be the LORD'S people.
World English Bible
Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iehoiada made a couenant betweene him, and all the people, & the King, that they would be the Lords people.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Jehoiada cut a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they would be the people of Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD's people.
Contemporary English Version
Jehoiada asked King Joash and the people to join with him in being faithful to the Lord . They agreed,
Complete Jewish Bible
Y'hoyada made a covenant between himself, all the people and the king, that they would be Adonai 's people.
Darby Translation
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be the people of Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Jehoiada made an agreement with all the people and the king. They all agreed that they all would be the Lord 's people.
George Lamsa Translation
And Jehoiadah made a covenant between himself and all the people, and between himself and the king, that they should be the LORDS people.
Good News Translation
The priest Jehoiada had King Joash and the people join him in making a covenant that they would be the Lord 's people.
Lexham English Bible
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.
Literal Translation
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and between all the people, and between the king, to be a people to Jehovah;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Ioiada made a couenaunt betwene him and all the people, and the kynge, yt they shulde be the people of the LORDE.
American Standard Version
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah's people.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iehoiada made a bond betweene him and al the people and the king, that they shoulde be the Lordes people.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
King James Version (1611)
And Iehoiada made a couenant betweene him, and betweene all the people, and betweene the king, that they should be the Lords people.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Jodae made a covenant between himself, and the people, and the king, that the people should be the Lord’s.
English Revised Version
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD’S people.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Joiada couenauntide a boond of pees bitwixe him silf and al the puple and the kyng, that it schulde be the puple of the Lord.
Update Bible Version
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
New King James Version
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD's people.
New Living Translation
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the Lord 's people.
New Life Bible
Then Jehoiada made an agreement between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be the Lord's people.
New Revised Standard
Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the Lord 's people.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Jehoiada solemnised a covenant, between himself and all the people, and the king, - that they should become a people unto Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.
Revised Standard Version
And Jehoi'ada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the LORD's people.
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehoiada maketh a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, to be for a people to Jehovah;
THE MESSAGE
Jehoiada now made a covenant between himself and the king and the people: they were to be God 's special people.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they would be the LORD'S people.

Contextual Overview

12 Now Athaliah, hearing the noise of the people running and praising the king, came to the people in the house of the Lord: 13 And looking, she saw the king in his place by the pillar at the doorway, and the captains and the horns by his side; and all the people of the land were giving signs of joy and sounding the horns; and the makers of melody were playing on instruments of music, taking the chief part in the song of praise. Then Athaliah, violently parting her robes, said, Broken faith, broken faith! 14 Then Jehoiada the priest gave orders to the captains of hundreds who had authority over the army, saying, Take her outside the lines, and let anyone who goes after her be put to death with the sword. For the priest said, Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord. 15 So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the king's horses; and there she was put to death. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made a covenant: 2 Chronicles 15:12, 2 Chronicles 15:14, 2 Chronicles 29:10, 2 Chronicles 34:31, 2 Chronicles 34:32, Deuteronomy 5:2, Deuteronomy 5:3, Deuteronomy 29:1-15, 2 Kings 11:17, Ezra 10:3, Nehemiah 5:12, Nehemiah 5:13, Nehemiah 9:38, Nehemiah 10:29-39

that they should: Deuteronomy 26:17-19, Joshua 24:21-25, Isaiah 44:5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 29:10 - General Joshua 24:25 - made 2 Samuel 5:3 - made 2 Kings 23:3 - made a covenant 2 Chronicles 15:15 - rejoiced 2 Chronicles 23:3 - made a covenant Jeremiah 11:2 - General Jeremiah 34:8 - had

Cross-References

Genesis 23:15
My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there.
Genesis 43:21
And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to give it back;
Exodus 30:13
And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.
Job 28:15
Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.
Jeremiah 32:9
So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;
Ezekiel 45:12
And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels
Zechariah 11:12
And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.
Matthew 7:12
All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
Romans 13:8
Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.
Philippians 4:8
For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Between him ... - In 2 Kings 11:17 the covenant is said to have been made “between the Lord,” etc. To the writer of Chronicles Jehoiada was God’s representative, and received the pledges of king and people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 23:16. Made a covenant between him — The high priest was, on this occasion, the representative of GOD; whom both the people and the king must have had in view, through the medium of his priest.


 
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