- Now in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took captains of hundreds: Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Johanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, and they entered into a covenant with him.
- They went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the fathers' households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
- Then all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, "Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD has spoken concerning the sons of David.
- "This is the thing which you shall do: one third of you, of the priests and Levites who come in on the sabbath, shall be gatekeepers,
- and one third shall be at the king's house, and a third at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
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- 第七年耶何耶大奮勇自強、將百夫長耶羅罕的兒子亞撒利雅、約哈難的兒子以實瑪利、俄備得的兒子亞撒利雅、亞大雅的兒子瑪西雅、細基利的兒子以利沙法召來、與他們立約。
- 他們走遍猶大、從猶大各城裡招聚利未人、和以色列的眾族長、到耶路撒冷來。
- 會眾在 神殿裡與王立約。耶何耶大對他們說、看哪、王的兒子必當作王、正如耶和華指著大衛子孫所應許的話。
- 又說、你們當這樣行.祭司和利未人、凡安息日進班的三分之一、要把守各門.
- 三分之一、要在王宮、三分之一、要在基址門.眾百姓要在耶和華殿的院內。
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