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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
2 Kings 11:13–16, “And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD. And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD. And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain.”
When Athaliah heard the noise of Joash’s coronation in the Temple she went to see what was happening. As soon as she saw Joash and the fact that he was standing in a place that was ceremonially reserved for a king she realised that something was happening. She claimed that some treasonous was happening because she assumed that she was the legitimate ruler of Judah. However, the Lord was the legitimate ruler in Israel and she had no right to claim any authority in the kingdom. The soldiers took her out of the Temple and executed, according to the Law of the Lord for killing the legitimate heirs to the kingdom of Judah.
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