2 Chronicles 23:12-15

International Standard Version

Joash is Crowned and Athaliah Executed^(A)

¹² When Athaliah heard all the commotion of the people running around and praising the king, she went straight to the Lord’s Temple to confront^[a] the people. ¹³ She looked around, and there was the king, standing by his pillar at the gate, accompanied by officers and trumpeters who stood beside the king, along with all the people of the land rejoicing and sounding trumpets while singers lead the celebration with their musical instruments. Athaliah tore her robes and yelled “Treason! Treason!”

¹⁴ But Jehoiada the priest summoned the captains of hundreds who had been appointed in charge over the army and ordered them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and execute anyone who follows her.” The priest also told them, “Don’t execute her in the Lord’s Temple.” ¹⁵ So they arrested her when she arrived at the entrance to the Horse Gate near the royal palace, and then they executed her there.