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The whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the House of God. Jehoiada said to them:

Look! Here is the king’s son. He will rule as king, just as the Lord has promised concerning the sons of David.

This is what you will do. One third of you who are coming on duty on the Sabbath to perform your duties as priests and Levites are to guard the gates. One third of you will be in the palace of the king, and one third at the Foundation Gate.[a] All the people will be stationed in the courtyards of the House of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 23:5 In 2 Kings 11:6 this is called the Sur Gate.