2 Chronicles 23:14 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Chronicles 23:14

Death of Athaliah

12 Now when ^aAthaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people in the temple of the Lord.

13 When she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance; and the leaders and the trumpeters were by the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, also the singers with musical instruments, and ^athose who led in praise. So Athaliah tore her clothes and said, ^b“Treason! Treason!”

14 And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Take her outside under guard, and slay with the sword whoever follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not kill her in the house of the Lord.”

15 So they seized her; and she went by way of the entrance ^aof the Horse Gate into the king’s house, and they killed her there.

16 Then Jehoiada made a ^acovenant between himself, the people, and the king, that they should be the Lord’s people.

17 And all the people went to the¹ temple of Baal, and tore it down. They broke in pieces its altars and images, and ^akilled Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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Slay her not in the house of the Lord . . . and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there—The high priest ordered her immediately to be taken out of the temple grounds and put to death. "And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain" (II Kings 11:16). "Now, we are not to suppose that horses came into [the king's house] of residence, but into the king's (horses') house or hippodrome (the gate of the king's mules) [JOSEPHUS], he had built for them on the southeast of the temple, in the immediate vicinity of the horse gate in the valley of Kedron—a valley which was at that time a kind of desecrated place by the destruction of idols and their appurtenances" (II Kings 23:2, II Kings 23:6, II Kings 23:12) [BARCLAY, City of the Great King].

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