2 CHRONICLES 23:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.”
Athaliah's execution — 'So they laid hands on her; and she went into the entrance of the Gate of the Horse of the king's house, and they put her to death there' (וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ יָדָיִם עָלֶיהָ וַתָּבֹא בְמִבְחָל שַׁעַר־הַסּוּס בְּבֵית־הַמֶּלֶךְ וַיְמִיתוּהָ שָׁם). The forces seize Athaliah (ישׁלחו ידים עליה, laid hands on her) and bring her to the 'entrance of the Gate of the Horse' (מבחל שׁער הסוס), an alternative gate through which she is removed from the temple. There she is executed (וימיתוה). The brief notice of her death — without elaboration or lamentation — reflects the Chronicler's judgment: she is an illegitimate usurper, a non-Davidic foreigner, who violated the covenant. Her death removes the greatest threat to the covenant promise.
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