2 Kings 11:15
Have her forth without the ranges - Rather, "Conduct her out between your ranks." Guard her, i. e., on all sides, that the people may not fall upon her and kill her as she passes through the court, thereby polluting the temple.
Death of Athaliah
13 aNow when Athaliah heard the noise of the escorts and the people, she came to the people in the temple of the Lord.
14 When she looked, there was the king standing by aa pillar according to custom; and the leaders and the trumpeters were by the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. So Athaliah tore her clothes and cried out, “Treason! Treason!”
15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the army, and said to them, “Take her outside1 under guard, and slay with the sword whoever follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not let her be killed in the house of the Lord.”
16 So they seized her; and she went by way of the horses’ entrance into the king’s house, and there she was killed.
17 aThen Jehoiada bmade a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people, and also cbetween the king and the people.
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