2 Kings 11:16 So they seized her as she reached the place where the horses enter the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
So they seized her as she reached the place where the horses enter the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.

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

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.

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.

Cross References

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Leviticus 24:17
And he that kills any man shall surely be put to death.

2 Kings 11:15
But 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.

Nehemiah 3:28
From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.

Jeremiah 31:40
And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

15. without the ranges—that is, fences, that the sacred place might not be stained with human blood.