15Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword. For the priest said, Don`t let her be slain in the house of Yahweh.
16So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses` entry to the king`s house: and there was she slain.
17Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh`s people; between the king also and the people.
18All 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 house of Yahweh.
19He 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 house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king`s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
20So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king`s house.
21Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
