1 No sétimo ano, Joiada se animou e entrou em aliança com os capitães de cem: Azarias, filho de Jeroão, Ismael, filho de Joanã, Azarias, filho de Obede, Maaseias, filho de Adaías, e Elisafate, filho de Zicri. 2 Estes percorreram Judá, e congregaram os levitas de todas as cidades de Judá e os cabeças das famílias de Israel, e vieram para Jerusalém. 3 Toda essa congregação fez aliança com o rei na Casa de Deus; e Joiada lhes disse: Eis que reinará o filho do rei, como falou o Senhor a respeito dos filhos de Davi. 4 Esta é a obra que haveis de fazer: uma terça parte de vós, sacerdotes e levitas, que entrais no sábado, servirá de guardas da porta; 5 outra terça parte estará na casa do rei; e a outra terça parte, à Porta do Fundamento; e todo o povo estará nos pátios da Casa do Senhor. 6 Porém ninguém entre na Casa do Senhor, senão os sacerdotes e os levitas que ministram; estes entrarão, porque são santos; mas todo o povo guardará o preceito do Senhor. 7 Os levitas rodearão o rei, cada um de armas na mão, e qualquer que entrar na casa, seja morto; estareis com o rei quando entrar e quando sair.

8 Fizeram, pois, os levitas e todo o Judá segundo tudo quanto lhes ordenara o sacerdote Joiada; tomou cada um os seus homens, tanto os que entravam como os que saíam no sábado; porquanto o sacerdote Joiada não despediu os turnos. 9 O sacerdote Joiada entregou aos capitães de cem as lanças, os paveses e os escudos que haviam sido do rei Davi e estavam na Casa de Deus. 10 Dispôs todo o povo, cada um de armas na mão, desde o lado direito da casa real até ao seu lado esquerdo, e até ao altar, e até ao templo, para rodear o rei. 11 Então, trouxeram para fora o filho do rei, puseram-lhe a coroa, entregaram-lhe o Livro do Testemunho e o constituíram rei; Joiada e seus filhos o ungiram e gritaram: Viva o rei!

12 Ouvindo Atalia o clamor do povo que corria e louvava o rei, veio para onde este se achava na Casa do Senhor; 13 olhou, e eis que o rei estava junto à coluna, à entrada, e os capitães e os que tocavam trombetas, junto ao rei; e todo o povo da terra se alegrava, e se tocavam trombetas. Também os cantores com os instrumentos músicos dirigiam o canto de louvores. Então, Atalia rasgou os seus vestidos e clamou: Traição! Traição! 14 Porém o sacerdote Joiada trouxe para fora os capitães que comandavam as tropas e disse-lhes: Fazei-a sair por entre as fileiras; se alguém a seguir, matai-o à espada. Porque o sacerdote tinha dito: Não a matem na Casa do Senhor. 15 Lançaram mão dela; e ela, pelo caminho da entrada dos cavalos, foi à casa do rei, onde a mataram.

16 Joiada fez aliança entre si mesmo, o povo e o rei, para serem eles o povo do Senhor. 17 Então, todo o povo se dirigiu para a casa de Baal e a derribaram; despedaçaram os seus altares e as suas imagens e a Matã, sacerdote de Baal, mataram perante os altares. 18 Entregou Joiada a superintendência da Casa do Senhor nas mãos dos sacerdotes levitas, a quem Davi designara para o encargo da Casa do Senhor, para oferecerem os holocaustos do Senhor, como está escrito na Lei de Moisés, com alegria e com canto, segundo a instituição de Davi. 19 Colocou porteiros às portas da Casa do Senhor, para que nela não entrasse ninguém que de qualquer forma fosse imundo. 20 Tomou os capitães de cem, os nobres, os governadores do povo e todo o povo da terra, e todos estes conduziram, da Casa do Senhor, o rei; passaram, pela porta superior, para a casa do rei e assentaram o rei no trono do reino. 21 Alegrou-se todo o povo da terra, e a cidade ficou tranquila, pois haviam matado Atalia à espada.

1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Behold, the king' son shall reign, as the LORD has said of the sons of David.

4 This is the thing that you shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;

5 And a third part shall be at the king' house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.

6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever else comes into the house, he shall be put to death: but be you with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.

8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David', which were in the house of God.

10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.

11 Then they brought out the king' son, and put on him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.

12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:

13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.

15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king' house, they slew her there.

16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD' people.

17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.

20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king' house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.

21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.