New Revised Standard Version
So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been killed with the sword at the king’s house.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone celebrated because Athaliah had been killed and Jerusalem was peaceful again.

New American Bible
All the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quiet, now that Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the king’s house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword in the king's house.

And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword in the king's house.

took

2 Kings 11:14 She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was, and the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments, and cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy.

2 Chronicles 23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword.

Proverbs 11:10 By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.

Proverbs 29:2 When just men increase, the people shall rejoice: when the wicked shall bear rule, the people shall mourn.

slew Athaliah

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.