2 Chronicles 23:15

¹³ And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

¹⁴ Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.

So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they slew her there.

¹⁶ And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.

¹⁷ Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: So they seized Athaliah as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate to the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.
KJV: So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they slew her there.
WEB: 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.
ASV: So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king`s house: and they slew her there.
DARBY: And they made way for her, and she went through the entrance of the horse-gate into the king's house, and they put her to death there.
BLB: And they seized her hands, and she went by way of the entrance of the Gate of Horses [into] the house of the king, and they killed her there.

ÅB: Så gjorde de plass for henne til begge sider, og da hun kom dit hvor Hesteporten[^2] fører inn til kongens hus, drepte de henne.
OTB: Så grep de henne, og da hun nådde inngangen til Hesteporten til kongens hus, henrettet de henne der.
B1930: Så gjorde de plass for henne til begge sider, og da hun kom dit hvor Hesteporten fører inn til kongens hus, drepte de henne. / < NEH 3, 28.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Nehemiah 3:28
From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.
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2 Chronicles 22:10
But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
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Jeremiah 31:40
And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
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Psalms 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
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James 2:13
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
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Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
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Judges 1:7
And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
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Revelation 16:5–7
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
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