18 And Jehoiada appointed officers for the house of the Lord, under the [a]hands of the Priests and Levites, whom David had distributed for the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord, (A)as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and singing by the appointment of David.

19 And he set porters by the gates of the house of the Lord, that none that was unclean in anything, should enter in.

20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the noble men, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and he caused the king to come down out of the house of the Lord, and they went through the [b]high gate of the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 23:18 Or, charge.
  2. 2 Chronicles 23:20 Which was the principal gate, that the King might be seen of all the people.

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