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When Athaliah heard the noise made by the people running and cheering the king, she went to the people at the LORD's temple
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and saw the king standing by the royal pillar at the entrance, with the commanders and trumpeters beside the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and singers accompanied by musical instruments were leading the praise. Athaliah ripped her clothes and screamed, "Treason! Treason!"
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Then the priest Jehoiada brought out the unit commanders who were in charge of the army. "Take her out under guard," he told them, "and kill anyone who follows her." This was because the priest had said, "She must not be executed in the LORD's temple.
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They arrested her when she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate at the royal palace. She was executed there.
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Jehoiada then made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they would be the LORD's people.
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Then all the people went to Baal's temple and tore it down, smashing its altars and images into pieces. They executed Baal's priest Mattan in front of the altars.
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Jehoiada appointed the priests and Levites in charge of the LORD's temple, and then appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites that David had assigned to the LORD's temple to offer entirely burned sacrifices to the LORD, as written in the Instruction from Moses, with rejoicing and singing, just as David had ordered.
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He posted guards at the gates of the LORD's temple so that no one who was unclean in any way could enter
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Then he took the unit commanders, the officials, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and they led the king down from the LORD's temple, processing through the Upper Gate to the palace, where the king sat upon the royal throne.
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All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was at peace now that Athaliah had been executed at the palace