2 Kings 11:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And 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.

2 Kings 11:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 5:3
So 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 Chronicles 15:12-14
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; …
Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
2 Chronicles 34:31
And 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.
1 Samuel 10:25
Then 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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-21)

Jehoiada had now got over the harlot part of his work, when, by the death of Athaliah, the young prince had his way to the throne cleared of all opposition. He had now to improve his advantages for the perfecting of the revolution and the settling of the government. Two things we have an account of here:— I. The good foundations he laid, by an original contract, 2 Kgs. 11:17. Now that prince and p…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17-18. a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people--The covenant with the Lord was a renewal of the national covenant with Israel (Ex 19:1-24:18; “to be unto him a people of inheritance,” De 4:6; 27:9). The covenant between the king and the people was the consequence of this, and by it the king bound himself to rule according to the divine law, while the people engaged to submit, to gi…