13 Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits¹ long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,

14 And when she looked, there was the king ^jstanding by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and ^kblowing trumpets. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, ^l“Treason! Treason!”

16 They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.