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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
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