So they seized her and led her out to the gate where horses enter the palace grounds, and she was killed there.
Parallel translations
- WEB So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.
- KJV 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.
- BSB So they seized Athaliah as she reached the horses’ entrance to the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.
- NKJV So they seized her; and she went by way of the horses’ entrance into the king’s house, and there she was killed.
- NASB So they seized her, and when they brought her to the horses’ entrance of the king’s house, she was put to death there.
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Quick answer
Athaliah is led to the palace entrance and put to death there. The wicked queen's reign ends.
Overview
She is slain at the horses' entry by the king's house, away from the temple as Jehoiada directed. Her death removes the last obstacle to Joash's rightful rule. The fall of Ahab's daughter completes the judgment on his house and clears the way for the renewal of true worship in Judah.
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Cross-references · 6
- Gen 9:6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
- Rev 16:5–7I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
- 2 Chr 23:15So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.
- Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- Matt 7:2For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
- Judg 1:7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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Amid the long decline toward exile, the promise to David's house refuses to die; the flickering lamp kept burning anticipates the coming King who will not fail or be cut off.
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