15. So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.
16. Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.
17. All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
18. Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.
19. He set the porters at the gates of Yahweh’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
20. He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from Yahweh’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
21. So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.