What does 2 Kings 11:17 mean?

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• 2 Samuel 5:3

  So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah: and they anointed David king over Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 15:12

  And they entered into the covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

• 2 Kings 11:4

  And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Jehovah; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Jehovah, and showed them the king’s son.

• Nehemiah 9:38

  And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal unto it.

• 2 Chronicles 34:31

  And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

• 1 Chronicles 11:3

  So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Jehovah by Samuel.

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