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2 Chronicles 23:17

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All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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2 Chronicles 23:17 in other translations

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.

2 Chronicles 23:17 · American Standard Version

2 Chronicles 23:17 in context

  1. 15So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.
  2. 16Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.
  3. 17All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
  4. 18Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.
  5. 19He set the gatekeepers at the gates of Yahweh’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.