2 Kings 11:16
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New International Version (©2011)
So they seized her as she reached the place where the horses enter the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So they seized her and led her out to the gate where horses enter the palace grounds, and she was killed there.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So they laid hands on her; and she went through the horses’ entrance to the king’s house, and there she was put to death.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So they seized her, and when she arrived at the horses' entrance of the king's house, she was put to death there.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So they arrested her, and she went through the horse entrance to the king's palace, where she was put to death.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So they arrested Athaliah, took her out through the same entrance used by the horses for entering the king's palace, and executed her.

NET Bible (©2006)
They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses' entrance. There she was executed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So they arrested her as she came to the street where the horses enter the royal palace, and there she was killed.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.

American King James Version
And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.

American Standard Version
So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses entry to the king's house: and there was she slain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.

Darby Bible Translation
And they made way for her, and she went by the way by which the horses entered the king's house, and there was she put to death.

English Revised Version
So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house: and there was she slain.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.

World English Bible
So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house. She was slain there.

Young's Literal Translation
And they make for her sides, and she entereth the way of the entering in of the horses to the house of the king, and is put to death there.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:13-16 Athaliah hastened her own destruction. She herself was the greatest traitor, and yet was first and loudest in crying, Treason, treason! The most guilty are commonly the most forward to reproach others.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 16. - And they laid hands on her. So the LXX. (ἐπέθηκαν αὐτῇ χεῖρας), the Vulgate, Luther, and others; but most moderns understand that they formed in two lines, one on either side of her, and so let her pass out of the temple and proceed towards the palace untouched - the divinity that hedged a queen preventing them from molesting her until the time came for her execution (see the Revised Version). And she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house. Josephus makes Athaliah pass out of the temple by the east gate, and descend into the Kedron valley. He says she was put to death "at the gate of the king's mules," but does not mark the locality. The gate intended can scarcely be the "horse gate" of Nehemiah 3:28, which was in the eastern wall, and north of the temple. It was probably a gate on the western side of the Tyropoeon valley, giving entrance to the stables of the palace (comp. 2 Chronicles 23:15, and see below, ver. 20). And there was she slain; "with the sword" (ver. 20). A single blow from one of the guardsmen probably sufficed.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they laid hands on her,.... Or rather,"set a place for her'',as the Targum; so Jarchi and Kimchi; made a space, opened a way for her to come out of the temple into their ranks, that she might be there taken and slain, and not in the temple:

and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house; either the high road in which the horses and carriages went to the palace, or the way to the king's stables near the palace: and there was she slain; they let her go so far, which was far enough from the temple, and then they slew her.

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The Death of Athaliah
…14And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. 15But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said to them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that follows her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD. 16And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.

Genesis 9:6 "Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
Leviticus 24:17 "'Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.
2 Kings 11:15 Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops: "Bring her out between the ranks and put to the sword anyone who follows her." For the priest had said, "She must not be put to death in the temple of the LORD."
Nehemiah 3:28 Above the Horse Gate, the priests made repairs, each in front of his own house.
Jeremiah 31:40 The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished."