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2 Chronicles 23:21
So all the people of the land were glad and the town was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death with the sword.
2 Chronicles 23:21 · Bible in Basic English
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2 Chronicles 23:21 in other translations
And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
and all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city was quiet, because Athaliah had been put to the sword.
So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.
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In context
18 And Jehoiada put the work and the care of the house of the Lord into the hands of the priests and the Levites, who had been grouped in divisions by David to make burned offerings to the Lord, as it is recorded in the law of Moses, with joy and song as David had said.
19 And he put door-keepers at the doors of the Lord's house, to see that no one who was unclean in any way might come in.
20 Then he took the captains of hundreds and the chiefs and the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord through the higher doorway into the king's house, and put the king on the seat of the kingdom.
21 So all the people of the land were glad and the town was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death with the sword.
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