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Athaliah, hearing all the commotion, the people running around and praising the king, came to The Temple to see what was going on.
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Astonished, she saw the young king standing at the entrance flanked by the captains and heralds, with everybody beside themselves with joy, trumpets blaring, the choir and orchestra leading the praise. Athaliah ripped her robes in dismay and shouted, "Treason! Treason!"
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Jehoiada the priest ordered the military officers, "Drag her outside - and kill anyone who tries to follow her!" (The priest had said, "Don't kill her inside The Temple of God."
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So they dragged her out to the palace's horse corral and there they killed her.
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Jehoiada now made a covenant between himself and the king and the people: they were to be God's special people.
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The people poured into the temple of Baal and tore it down, smashing altar and images to smithereens. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar.
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Jehoiada turned the care of God's Temple over to the priests and Levites, the way David had directed originally. They were to offer the Whole-Burnt-Offerings of God as set out in The Revelation of Moses, and with praise and song as directed by David.
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He also assigned security guards at the gates of God's Temple so that no one who was unprepared could enter
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Then he got everyone together - officers, nobles, governors, and the people themselves - and escorted the king down from The Temple of God, through the Upper Gate, and placed him on the royal throne.
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Everybody celebrated the event. And the city was safe and undisturbed - Athaliah had been killed; no more Athaliah terror