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2 Chronicles 23:14
“Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Don't kill her in the Yahweh's house.”
Verse in context — 2 Chronicles 23
When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh:
and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, "Treason! treason!
Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Don't kill her in the Yahweh's house.
So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house; and they killed her there.
Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.
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Solomon’s reign and Judah’s history until the Babylonian exile.
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