1 No sétimo ano animou-se Joiada, e entrou em aliança com os centuriões, Azarias, filho de Jorão, Ismael, filho de Joanã, Azarias, filho de Obede, Maaséias, filho de Adaías, e Elisafate, filho de Sicri.2 Estes percorreram a Judá e congregaram os levitas de todas as cidades de Judá e os cabeças das famílias de Israel, e vieram para Jerusalém.3 Toda a congregação fez uma aliança com o rei na casa de Deus. Joiada disse-lhes: Eis que o filho do rei reinará, como falou Jeová a respeito dos filhos de Davi.4 Isto é o que haveis de fazer: uma terça parte de vós que entrardes no sábado, a saber, dos sacerdotes e dos levitas, servirá de guardas das portas;5 outra terça parte estará junto à casa do rei; e a outra terça parte à porta do Fundamento; e todo o povo estará nos átrios da casa de Jeová.6 Não entre, porém, nenhum outro na casa de Jeová, senão os sacerdotes e os levitas que estão de serviço; estes entrarão, porque são santos. Mas todo o povo formará a guarda de Jeová.7 Os levitas cercarão o rei de todos os lados, tendo cada um na mão as suas armas; e todo o que entrar na casa, seja morto: acompanhai o rei quando entrar e quando sair.8 Fizeram os levitas e todo o Judá conforme tudo o que o sacerdote Joiada ordenou. Tomou cada um os seus homens, tanto os que haviam de entrar no sábado como os que haviam de sair no sábado; pois o sacerdote Joiada não despediu as turmas.9 Também o sacerdote Joiada entregou aos centuriões as lanças, os paveses e os escudos que tinham pertencido ao rei Davi, os quais estavam na casa de Deus.10 Dispôs todo o povo, cada um com as suas armas na mão, desde o lado direito da casa até o lado esquerdo da casa, perto do altar e da casa, ao redor do rei.11 Então tiraram para fora o filho do rei, puseram-lhe na cabeça a coroa, deram-lhe o testemunho e constituíram-no o rei. Joiada e seus filhos ungiram-no, e disseram: Viva o rei.12 Ouvindo Atália a voz do povo, da guarda e dos que louvavam o rei, veio ter com o povo na casa de Deus.13 Olhou, e eis que o rei estava junto à sua coluna, à entrada, e os capitães e as trombetas perto do rei; todo o povo da terra se regozijava e tocava as trombetas. Também os cantores tocavam instrumentos de música, e guiavam nos cânticos de louvor. Então Atália rasgou os seus vestidos e disse: Traição! traição!14 O sacerdote Joiada tirou para fora os centuriões que estavam sobre o exército e disse-lhes: Tirai-a para fora por entre as fileiras: quem a seguir, seja morto a espada, pois disse o sacerdote: Não a mateis na casa de Jeová.15 Abriram-lhe passagem; e ela se foi à entrada da porta dos cavalos que dá para a casa do rei, onde a mataram.16 Joiada fez uma aliança entre si e o povo todo e o rei para serem o povo de Jeová.17 Todo o povo foi à casa de Baal, derrubaram-na, despedaçaram os altares e as imagens e mataram a Matã, sacerdote de Baal, diante dos altares.18 Joiada pôs os ofícios da casa de Jeová sob a direção dos levitas sacerdotes, a quem Davi tinha distribuído na casa de Jeová, para oferecerem com regozijo e com cânticos os holocaustos de Jeová, como está escrito na lei de Moisés, segundo a ordem de Davi.19 Colocou porteiros às portas da casa de Jeová, para que nela não entrasse ninguém que de qualquer forma fosse imundo.20 Tomou os centuriões, os nobres, os governadores do povo, e todo o povo da terra, e conduziu ao rei da casa de Jeová; passaram pela porta superior para a casa do rei, e fizeram sentar o rei no trono do reino.21 Assim se regozijou todo o povo da terra, e estava em paz a cidade. Mataram a Atália à espada.

1 And in the seventh year Joiada being encouraged, took the captains of hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel the son of Johanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasias the son of Adaias, and Elisaphat the son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them.2 And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.3 And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house of God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king's son shall reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of David.4 And this is the thing that you shall do:5 A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, and of the porters, shall be at the gates: and a third part at the king's house: and a third at the gate that is called the Foundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the house of the Lord.6 And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests, and they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because they are sanctified : and let all the rest of the people keep the watches of the Lord.7 And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his arms; (and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain;) and let them be with the king, both coming in, and going out.8 So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the high priest bad commanded: and they took every one his men that were under him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high priest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to succeed one another every week.9 And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the shields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house of the Lord.10 And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the right side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the altar, and the temple, round about the king.11 And they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they made him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him: and they prayed for him, and said: God save the king.12 Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the Lord.13 And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance, and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her garments, and said: Treason, treason.14 And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of the Lord.15 And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.16 And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the Lord.17 And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it: and they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan the priest of Baal before the altars.18 And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under the hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the disposition of David.19 He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him through the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal throne.21 ,21And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword.