<p class="bodytext">Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />

Now I intend<n id="1" /> to make a covenant with the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> to its assigned<n id="1" /> place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place under the wings of the cherubs.

and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the <sc>Lordsc> made with the Israelites.&#8221;p>

Don&#8217;t you realize that the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal agreement?<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Solomon convened Israel&#8217;s elders &#8211; all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families &#8211; in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> from the City of David<n id="2" /> (that is, Zion).<n id="3" />

&#8220;I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made.<n id="1" /> See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.&#8221;<n id="2" />

and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;The king&#8217;s son will rule, just as the <sc>Lordsc> promised David&#8217;s descendants.