2 Chronicles 23:15

And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they slew her there.

In Context

14And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of the Lord.

16And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the Lord.

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Cross References

Judges 1:7And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

2 Chronicles 22:10For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.

Psalms 5:6Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.

Jeremiah 31:40And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon the hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha,

James 2:13For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 23:13-21

Joash Crowned and Athaliah Slain. ( b. c. 878.) 12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord : 13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason. 14… Read the whole commentary →

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