2 Kings 11:17

JOASH WAS ESTABLISHED UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID IN JUDAH

"And Jehoiada made a covenant between Jehovah and the king and the people, that they should be Jehovah's; between the king also and the people. And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of Jehovah. And he took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Jehovah, and came by the way of the gate of the guard unto the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house."

"And Jehoiada made a covenant ... (2 Kings 11:17). "This covenant was simply a renewal of that covenant which the Lord had made with Israel through Moses (Exodus 34)."[19] It was a solemn declaration by which the people bound themselves to live as God's people and to obey his commandments and statutes and also agreed to obey their king who, under the divine government, was also bound to be guided by the Word of God as revealed in the Torah.

"This renewal of the covenant was necessary, because under their former kings the people had fallen away from the Lord and worshipped Baal."[20]

"And he sat on the throne of the kings" (2 Kings 11:19). Joash, then made king of Judah, was only seven years of age; but under the wise guidance of Jehoiada he was an effective ruler as long as Jehoiada lived. What happened after Jehoiada's death is another story.