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20 Jehoiada called together the officers of army groups, the important men, the government officers and all the other people. Jehoiada led them all to bring the king down from the Lord's temple into the palace. They went into the palace through the Higher Gate. They put Joash on the royal throne as king.

21 All the people were very happy. There was no longer any trouble in Jerusalem now that they had killed Athaliah as her punishment.

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