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 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 heads of fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. 3 And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the sons of David. 4 This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds; 5 and a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of Jehovah. 6 But let none come into the house of Jehovah, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Jehovah. 7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever cometh into the house, let him be slain: and be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those that were to come in on the sabbath, with those that were to go out on the sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses. 9 And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in the house of God. 10 And he set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king round about. 11 Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, Long live the king.

12 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Jehovah: 13 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also played on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason! treason! 14 And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Slay her not in the house of Jehovah. 15 So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house: and they slew her there.

16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah’s people. 17 And all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 18 And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Jehovah under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Jehovah, to offer the burnt-offerings of Jehovah, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David. 19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that none that was unclean in anything 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 Jehovah: and they came through the upper gate unto the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. 21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they had slain with the sword.