13 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the Lord’s house:
14 and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the shofars by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew shofars. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”
15 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in the Lord’s house.”
16 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.
17 Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people; also between the king and the people.
18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the Lord’s house.
19 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the Lord’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.