2 Kings 11:16
Good News Translation
They seized her, took her to the palace, and there at the Horse Gate they killed her.

New Revised Standard Version
So they laid hands on her; she went through the horses’ entrance to the king’s house, and there she was put to death.

Contemporary English Version
So the commanders dragged her to the gate where horses are led into the palace, and they killed her there.

New American Bible
So they seized her, and when she reached the Horse Gate of the king’s house, she was put to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.

by the which

2 Chronicles 23:15 And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.

there was she slain

Genesis 9:6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Judges 1:7 And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

Revelation 16:5-7 And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things. . . .

Context
The Death of Athaliah
15But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord. 16And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.
Cross References
Genesis 9:6
Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Leviticus 24:17
He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.

2 Kings 11:15
But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.

Nehemiah 3:28
And upward from the horse gate the priests built, every man over against his house.

Jeremiah 31:40
And the whole valley of dead bodies, and of ashes, and all the country of death, even to the torrent Cedron, and to the corner of the horse gate towards the east, the Holy of the Lord: it shall not be plucked up, and it shall not be destroyed any more for ever.

2 Kings 11:15
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