2 Chronicles 23:15
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New International Version
So they seized her as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate on the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.


English Standard Version
So they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king’s house, and they put her to death there.


New American Standard Bible
So they seized her, and when she arrived at the entrance of the Horse Gate of the king's house, they put her to death there.


King James Bible
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.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
So they arrested her, and she went by the entrance of the Horses' Gate to the king's palace, where they put her to death.


International Standard Version
So they arrested her when she arrived at the entrance to the Horse Gate near the royal palace, and then they executed her there.


American Standard Version
So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they slew her there.


Douay-Rheims Bible
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.


Darby Bible Translation
And they made way for her, and she went through the entrance of the horse-gate into the king's house, and they put her to death there.


Young's Literal Translation
And they make for her sides, and she cometh in unto the entrance of the gate of the horses at the house of the king, and they put her to death there.


Commentaries
23:12-20 A warning from God was sent to Jehoram. The Spirit of prophecy might direct Elijah to prepare this writing in the foresight of Jehoram's crimes. He is plainly told that his sin should certainly ruin him. But no marvel that sinners are not frightened from sin, and to repentance, by the threatenings of misery in another world, when the certainty of misery in this world, the sinking of their estates, and the ruin of their health, will not restrain them from vicious courses. See Jehoram here stripped of all his comforts. Thus God plainly showed that the controversy was with him, and his house. He had slain all his brethren to strengthen himself; now, all his sons are slain but one. David's house must not be wholly destroyed, like those of Israel's kings, because a blessing was in it; that of the Messiah. Good men may be afflicted with diseases; but to them they are fatherly chastisements, and by the support of Divine consolations the soul may dwell at ease, even when the body lies in pain. To be sick and poor, sick and solitary, but especially to be sick and in sin, sick and under the curse of God, sick and without grace to bear it, is a most deplorable case. Wickedness and profaneness make men despicable, even in the eyes of those who have but little religion.

14, 15. 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" (2Ki 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" (2Ki 23:2, 6, 12) [Barclay, City of the Great King].
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