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2 Chronicles 23:13
And she looked and saw the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, while the singers with musical instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Athaliah exits the temple precincts after hearing the crowd's noise and witnesses the new king standing at the entrance pillar with military officers, trumpeters, and a rejoicing populace.
The words — The narrative emphasizes עַמּוּדוֹ (a.mu.D/o), literally "his pillar," and תֵּרֶא (te.re'), literally "she saw," to anchor her sudden visual confirmation of the royal ceremony.
The thread — This public coronation and communal rejoicing align with the righteous flourishing described in Proverbs 29:2, while the trumpet signals function as the assembly markers outlined in Numbers 10:1.
Why it lands — The account requires the reader to observe that established authority operates through visible ceremony and collective witness, leaving no room for hidden power or isolated opposition.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
- Numbers 10:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Judges 7:8 So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams’ horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.
- Judges 7:18 When I and all who are with me blow our horns, then you are also to blow your horns from all around the camp and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”
- 1 Kings 1:39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the ram’s horn, and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon!”
- 1 Kings 18:17 When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?”
- 2 Kings 9:13 Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”
- 2 Kings 9:23 Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”
- 2 Kings 23:3 So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
- 1 Chronicles 12:40 And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.