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 well with the supposition that she was living in Solomon's palace, close adjoining the Temple, as Warren places it. When Athaliah saw the state of things, she cried—"Treason, treason!" But she found no friends there. The priest said, "Have her forth—slay her not in the house of the Lord! So they made way for her; and she went to the entry of the Horse Gate to the king's house; and they slew her there" (2 Chron. xviii. 15; 2 Kings xii. 16). It is implied in this narrative that the Horse Gate was not only by the king's house, but that it was also the nearest point which could be considered fairly beyond the sacred precincts; and this is in full agreement with the position which we have assigned it.

In the context of the passages just quoted we find that Joash is carried "by the way of the Gate of the Guard into the king's house." This gate must, of course, have been on that side of the palace adjoining the Temple courts; it was probably due north of the Water Gate (i.e., the Triple Gate), and it thus again accords with Neh. iii. 25, where the tower standing out from Solomon's house is said to be "by the court of the guard." The court of the guard may very well have extended from the Water Gate without to the Gate of the Guard on the Temple side of the palace. From Neh. xii. 39, it appears that there was a corresponding Gate of the Guard at the corresponding point on the north side of the altar.

The Assassination of Joash. When Joash grew to man's estate he made changes which displeased his people; and the short statement is that his slaves slew him on his bed, "at the House of Millo, that goeth down to Silla" (2 Kings xii. 20, combined with 2 Chron. xxiv. 25). This has been generally regarded as obscure, and some have supposed Silla to be the same as M'sillah, a stairway at the west gate of the Temple, north of Wilson's Arch (1 Chron. xxvi. 16). But it is more naturally the stairway at Millo itself. Joash was