2 Kings 11:17
Good News Translation
The priest Jehoiada had King Joash and the people make a covenant with the LORD that they would be the LORD's people; he also made a covenant between the king and the people.

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

Contemporary English Version
Jehoiada the priest asked King Joash and the people to promise that they would be faithful to each other and to the LORD.

New American Bible
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, by which they would be the LORD’s people; and another between the king and the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

made a covenant

2 Kings 11:4 And in the seventh year Joiada sent, and taking the centurions and soldiers, brought them in to him into the temple of the Lord, and made a covenant with them: and taking an oath of them in the house of the Lord, shewed them the king's son:

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. . . .

Joshua 24:25 Joshua therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.

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 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.

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 10:28,29 And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:5 And not as we hoped: but they gave their own selves, first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God;

between the king

1 Samuel 10:25 And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the people, every one to his own house.

2 Samuel 5:3 The ancients also of Israel came to the king of Hebron, and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David to be king over Israel.

1 Chronicles 11:3 So all the ancients of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and David made a covenant with them before the Lord: and they anointed him king over Israel according to the word of the Lord which he spoke in the hand of Samuel.

2 Chronicles 23:16 And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.

Romans 13:1-6 Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power but from God: and those that are ordained of God. . . .

Context
Jehoiada Restores the Worship of the LORD
17And 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.18And all the people of the land went into the temple of Baal, and broke down his altars, and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly: they slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before the altar. And the priest set guards in the house of the Lord.…
Cross References
Joshua 24:25
Joshua therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.

1 Samuel 10:25
And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the people, every one to his own house.

2 Samuel 5:3
The ancients also of Israel came to the king of Hebron, and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David to be king over Israel.

2 Kings 23:3
And the king stood upon the step: and he made a covenant with the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his ceremonies, with all their heart, and with all their soul, and to perform the words of this covenant, which were written in that book: and the people agreed to the covenant.

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 23:16
And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.

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.

Jeremiah 34:8
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after that king Sedecias had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem making a proclamation:

2 Kings 11:16
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