2 Kings 11:13-15

Common English Bible

¹³ When Athaliah heard the noise made by the guard and the people, she went to the people at the Lord’s temple ¹⁴ and saw the king standing by the royal pillar, as was the custom, with the commanders and trumpeters beside the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Athaliah ripped her clothes and screamed, “Treason! Treason!”

¹⁵ Then the priest Jehoiada ordered the unit commanders who were in charge of the army: “Take her out under guard,”^[a] he told them, “and kill anyone who follows her.” This was because the priest had said, “She must not be executed in the Lord’s temple.”