2 Chronicles 23:15

And they make sides for her, and she comes to the entrance of the Horse Gate at the house of the king, and they put her to death there.

Literal Standard Version

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 Jehoiada the priest brings out the heads of the hundreds, inspectors of the force, and says to them, “Take her out from within the rows, and he who has gone after her is put to death by the sword”; for the priest said, “Do not put her to death [in] the house of YHWH.”

16And Jehoiada makes a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, to be for a people to YHWH;

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Cross References

Judges 1:7and Adoni-Bezek says, “Seventy kings—their thumbs and their great toes cut off—have been gathering under my table; as I have done so God has repaid to me”; and they bring him to Jerusalem, and he dies there.

2 Chronicles 22:10And Athaliah mother of Ahaziah has seen that her son is dead, and she rises and destroys the whole seed of the kingdom of the house of Judah.

Psalms 5:6You destroy those speaking lies, || YHWH detests a man of blood and deceit.

Jeremiah 31:40And all the valley of the carcasses and of the ashes, || And all the fields to the Brook of Kidron, || To the corner of the Horse Gate eastward, || [Are] holy to YHWH, || It is not plucked up, || Nor is it thrown down anymore for all time!”

James 2:13for the judgment without mercy [is] to him having not done mercy, and mercy exults over 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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