“and all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city was quiet, because Athaliah had been put to the sword.”
2 Chronicles 23:21 (BSB)
Context Reading
19He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that no one who was in any way unclean could enter. 20And he took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate. They seated King Joash on the royal throne, 21and all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city was quiet, because Athaliah had been put to the sword.
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