And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’s people; between the king also and the people.
Parallel translations
- WEB Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.
- BSB Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
- NKJV Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people, and also between the king and the people.
- NASB Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people, that they would be the Lord’s people, and between the king and the people.
- NLT Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people that they would be the Lord’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
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Quick answer
Jehoiada makes a covenant binding king and people to be Yahweh's people, and between king and people. The nation is recommitted to God.
Overview
The priest renews the covenant relationship, dedicating both king and nation to the Lord. This restores Judah's identity as God's covenant people after years under an idolatrous usurper. Such covenant renewal points to the new covenant in Christ's blood, by which a redeemed people are made wholly God's own.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Sam 5:3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.
- 2 Chr 15:12–14And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
- Josh 24:25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
- 2 Chr 34:31And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
- Ezra 10:3Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
- 1 Sam 10:25Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
- 2 Chr 29:10Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
- 1 Chr 11:3Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
- Deut 5:2–3The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
- Neh 9:38And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
- 2 Chr 23:16And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.
- Rom 13:1–6Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
- 2 Cor 8:5And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
- Deut 29:1–15These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
- Neh 10:28–29And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
- Neh 5:12–13Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
- 2 Kgs 11:4And 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.
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