THE BOY CROWNED KING
2 Kings 11:1-12
1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. 2 But
Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took
Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons
[which were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in
the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. 3 And he
was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah
did reign over the land. 4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and
fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard,
and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a
covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the
LORD, and shewed them the king's son. 5 And he commanded them,
saying, This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you
that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of
the king's house; 6 And a third part [shall be] at the gate of
Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye
keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down. 7 And
two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall
keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king. 8 And ye
shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in
his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain:
and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in. 9
And the captains over the hundreds did according to all [things]
that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his
men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go
out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. 10 And to
the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears
and shields, that [were] in the temple of the LORD. 11 And the
guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about
the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner
of the temple, [along] by the altar and the temple. 12 And he
brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and
[gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed
him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
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