2 Kings 11:13-20

13When Athaliah heard the royal guard shout, she joined the crowd at the Lord’s temple.

14Then she saw the king standing by the pillar, according to custom. The officers stood beside the king with their trumpets and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”

15Jehoiada the priest ordered the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, “Bring her outside the temple to the guards. Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple.

16They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There she was executed.

17Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the Lord.

18All the people of the land went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols to bits. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest then placed guards at the Lord’s temple.

19He took the officers of the units of hundreds, the Carians, the royal bodyguard, and all the people of land, and together they led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Gate of the Royal Bodyguard, and the king sat down on the royal throne.

20All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.