2 Chronicles 23:16
in 2 Chronicles 23Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people.
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ASV
And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah’s people.
KJV
And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the Lord’s people.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 23
Commentary
5 notes on this verseIn the Kings it is said that Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, the people, and the king, 2 Kings xi. Here it is said to be between himself, the people, and the king; for he, as God's priest, was his representative in this transaction, or a sort of mediator, as Moses was.
This site's exposition
that they should be the Lord’s people
on 2 Chronicles 23:16-18
Jehoiada renews the covenant, and Chronicles states its parties differently than Kings does: Kings names the LORD, the king and the people as the three sides, while Chronicles reads between him, and between all the people, and between the king, the priest standing in God's place as Moses once did for Israel. Then the house of Baal comes down, its altars and images broken, and Mattan the priest of Baal is slain before his own altars, judgment falling where the false worship had stood. Jehoiada restores the temple's offices into the hand of the priests the Levites exactly as David had distributed them, offering the burnt offerings as the law of Moses commands and singing as David ordained, so the reform ends by putting the Davidic order back in its place rather than only tearing an idol's house down.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The continuance of David's seed and throne was what God had sworn by his holiness ( Ps. lxxxix. 35 ), and an interruption was no defeasance; the stream of government here runs again in the right channel. The instrument and chief manager of the restoration is Jehoiada, who appears to have been, 1.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Made a covenant between him - The high priest was, on this occasion, the representative of God; whom both the people and the king must have had in view, through the medium of his priest.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Between him ... - In 2Ki 11:17 the covenant is said to have been made “between the Lord,” etc. To the writer of Chronicles Jehoiada was God’s representative, and received the pledges of king and people.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת | vaiyikhrot | and he made | H3772 → | 288 times |
| יְהוֹיָדָע֙ | yehoyada' | Jehoiada | H3077 → | 51 times |
| בְּרִ֔ית | berit | a covenant | H1285 → | 284 times |
| בֵּינ֕וֹ | beino | between himself | H996 → | 407 times |
| וּבֵ֥ין | uvein | and between | H996 → | 407 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הָעָ֖ם | haam | the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| וּבֵ֣ין | uvein | and between | H996 → | 407 times |
| הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| לִהְי֥וֹת | lihyot | to become | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לְעָ֖ם | leam | <into> a people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| לַיהוָֽה׃ | layahweh | of Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וַיִּכְרֹ֤תand he made
vaiyikhrotH3772 →288 times
יְהוֹיָדָע֙Jehoiada
yehoyada'H3077 →51 times
בְּרִ֔יתa covenant
beritH1285 →284 times
בֵּינ֕וֹbetween himself
beinoH996 →407 times
וּבֵ֥יןand between
uveinH996 →407 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
הָעָ֖םthe people
haamH5971 →1873 times
וּבֵ֣יןand between
uveinH996 →407 times
הַמֶּ֑לֶךְthe king
hamelekhH4428 →2525 times
לִהְי֥וֹתto become
lihyotH1961 →3559 times
לְעָ֖ם<into> a people
leamH5971 →1873 times
לַיהוָֽה׃of Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Nehemiah 9:38In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
it leads to
- Ezra 10:3
So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the…
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 34:31
So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul,…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 10:1
Now these were the ones who sealed the document: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and also Zedekiah,
- Nehemiah 10:29
hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes…
- Ezra 10:3
Through
2 Chronicles 29:10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 50:5
They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
- Jeremiah 50:5
Through
2 Kings 11:17Then 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.
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 5:3
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 15:12–14
Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.
- Joshua 24:25
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
- 2 Samuel 5:3
About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.