2 Chronicles 23:15
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 into the entrance of the Horse Gate of the king’s house, and there they put her to death.

Contemporary English Version
She tried to escape, but the commanders caught and killed her near the gate where horses are led into the palace.

New American Bible
So they seized her, and when she reached the Horse Gate of the royal palace, they put her to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

31:40) at which the king's horses probably went out from the stables at Millo. It was near the temple; and some Rabbins suppose that, in order to go to the temple, a person might go on horseback to this place, but was then obliged to alight.

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

they slew her there

2 Chronicles 22:10 For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.

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.

Psalm 5:6 Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

Psalm 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

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
14And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of the Lord. 15And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:10
For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.

2 Chronicles 23:14
And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house 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 Chronicles 23:14
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