2 Kings 11:9-16

21st Century King James Version

⁹ And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who should go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

¹⁰ And to the captains over hundreds the priest gave King David’s spears and shields that were in the temple of the Lord.

¹¹ And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.

¹² And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king and anointed him. And they clapped their hands and said, “God save the king!”

¹³ And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord.

¹⁴ And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king. And all the people of the land rejoiced and blew with trumpets. And Athaliah rent her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

¹⁵ But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, “Bring her forth outside the ranks; and him that followeth her kill with the sword.” For the priest had said, “Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.”

¹⁶ And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by which the horses came into the king’s house, and there was she slain.