16. So they seized her, and when she arrived at the horses' entrance of the king's house, she was put to death there.
17. Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people, also between the king and the people.
18. All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.
19. He took the captains of hundreds and the Carites and the guards and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guards to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
20. So all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quiet. For they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king's house.
21. Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.