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15 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, |Bring her out between the ranks. Kill him who follows her with the sword.| For the priest said, |Do not let her be slain in the house of the LORD.| 16 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. 17 Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD's people. 18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. 19 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the Gate of the Guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings. 20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house. 21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. 2 Kings 11:15-21, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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