¹² When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went among the people into the house of the LORD. ¹³ And when she saw the king stand at his pillar in the entering, and the lords and trumpets about the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing with trumpets, and the singers with instruments of music teaching to praise. Then she rent her clothes and cried, "Treason! Treason!"

¹⁴ And Jehoiada the priest went out with the captains of hundreds that were appointed to govern the host and said to them, "Have her out without the arrays and whosoever followeth her, let him be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Slay her not in the house of the LORD." ¹⁵ And they laid hands on her, and when she was come out to the entering of the horse gate in the king's house, they slew her there.