The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings: The Challoner Revision
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings: The Challoner Revision
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11:11. And they stood, having every one their weapons in their hands,
from the right side of the temple, unto the left side of the altar, and
of the temple, about the king.
11:12. And he brought forth the king's son, and put the diadem upon him,
and the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and
clapping their hands, they said: God save the king.
The testimony... The book of the law.
11:13. And Athalia heard the noise of the people running: and going in
to the people into the temple of the Lord,
11:14. She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was, and
the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the land
rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments, and
cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy.
A tribunal... A tribune, or a place elevated above the rest.
11:15. But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and
said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and
whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the
priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.
11:16. And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by
which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.
11:17. And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and
the people, that they should be the people of the Lord; and between the
king and the people.
11:18. And all the people of the land went into the temple of Baal, and
broke down his altars, and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly:
they slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before the altar. And the
priest set guards in the house of the Lord.
11:19. And he took the centurions, and the bands of the Cerethi, and the
Phelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from
the house of the Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the
shieldbearers into the palace, and he sat on the throne of the kings.
11:20. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet:
but Athalia was slain with the sword in the king's house.
11:21. Now Joas was seven years old when he began to reign.
4 Kings Chapter 12
The temple is repaired. Hazael is bought off from attacking Jerusalem.
Joas is slain.
12:1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned
forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia, of Bersabee.
12:2. And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days
that Joiada, the priest, taught him.
12:3. But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
12:4. And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified
things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass,
which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord,
and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord:
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