2 Kings 11:17 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Kings 11:17

15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the army, and said to them, “Take her outside¹ under guard, and slay with the sword whoever follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not let her be killed in the house of the Lord.”

16 So they seized her; and she went by way of the horses’ entrance into the king’s house, and there she was killed.

17 ^aThen Jehoiada ^bmade a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people, and also ^cbetween the king and the people.

18 And all the people of the land went to the ^atemple of Baal, and tore it down. They thoroughly ^bbroke in pieces its altars and¹ images, and ^ckilled Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And ^dthe priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.

19 Then he took the captains of hundreds, the bodyguards, the escorts, and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, and went by way of the gate of the escorts to the king’s house. Then he sat on the throne of the kings.

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JEHOIADA RESTORES GOD'S WORSHIP. (II Kings 11:17-20)

a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people—The covenant with the Lord was a renewal of the national covenant with Israel (Exo. 19:1-24:18; "to be unto him a people of inheritance," Deuteronomy 4:6; Deuteronomy 27:9). The covenant between the king and the people was the consequence of this, and by it the king bound himself to rule according to the divine law, while the people engaged to submit, to give him allegiance as the Lord's anointed. The immediate fruit of this renewal of the covenant was the destruction of the temple and the slaughter of the priests of Baal (see II Kings 10:27); the restoration of the pure worship of God in all its ancient integrity; and the establishment of the young king on the hereditary throne of Judah [II Kings 11:19].

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