15. Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds set over the army and said to them, Take her forth outside the ranks, and him who follows her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.
16. They seized her, and she went through the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was slain.
17. And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people that they would be the Lord's people–and also between the king and the people.
18. Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and destroyed it. His altar and his images they broke completely in pieces, and Mattan the priest of Baal they slew before the altars. And [Jehoiada] the priest appointed watchmen to guard the house of the Lord.
19. Then he took the rulers over hundreds, the captains, the guard, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord and came by way of the guards' gate to the king's house. And [little] Joash was seated on the throne of the kings.
20. So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been slain with the sword beside the king's house.
21. Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.