2 Chronicles 23:16
Good News Translation
The priest Jehoiada had King Joash and the people join him in making a covenant that they would be the LORD's people.

New Revised Standard Version
Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the LORD’s people.

Contemporary English Version
Jehoiada asked King Joash and the people to join with him in being faithful to the LORD. They agreed,

New American Bible
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.

made a covenant

2 Chronicles 15:12,14 And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul. . . .

2 Chronicles 29:10 Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from us.

2 Chronicles 34:31,32 And standing up in his tribunal, he made a covenant before the Lord to walk after him, and keep his commandments, and testimonies, and justifications with all his heart, and with all his soul, and to do the things that were written in that book which he had read. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:2,3 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. . . .

Deuteronomy 29:1-15 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that covenant which he made with them in Horeb. . . .

2 Kings 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.

Ezra 10:3 Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord, and of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be done according to the law.

Nehemiah 5:12,13 And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of them: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took an oath of them, to do according to what I had said. . . .

Nehemiah 9:38 And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.

Nehemiah 10:29 All that could understand, promising for their brethren, with their chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would walk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant of God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.

that they should

Deuteronomy 26:17-19 Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, and judgments, and obey his command. . . .

Joshua 24:21-25 And the people said to Joshua: No, it shall not be so as thou sayest, but we will serve the Lord. . . .

Isaiah 44:5 One shall say: I am the Lord's, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand, To the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

Context
Jehoiada Restores the Worship of the LORD
16And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.17And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it: and they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan the priest of Baal before the altars.…
Cross References
2 Kings 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.

2 Chronicles 15:12
And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul.

2 Chronicles 29:10
Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from us.

2 Chronicles 34:31
And standing up in his tribunal, he made a covenant before the Lord to walk after him, and keep his commandments, and testimonies, and justifications with all his heart, and with all his soul, and to do the things that were written in that book which he had read.

2 Chronicles 23:15
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