“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 LORD’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.