2 Kings 11:20

And[R.V. So] all the people of the land rejoiced The attachment of Judah to the family of David had always been very great, and to see a son of that family on the throne, even though some of his blood was of Ahab's house, was far more to the mind of the people than to be ruled over by a daughter of Ahab.

and the city was in quiet R.V. omits in, as is done in the parallel verse in 2 Chron. Cf. for the expression, the phrase so frequently recurring in Judges, -the land had rest" (Judges 3:30; Judges 5:31; &c.).

beside [R.V. at] the king's house There is no preposition in the original as the italics of A.V. indicate; the noun is an accusative of place. Hence the -at" of R.V. is warranted.

On the death of Athaliah Josephus (Ant.IX. 7. 3) says, -Jehoiada having called the captains ordered them to take Athaliah into the valley of Kidron and there to kill her". In 2 Kings 25:4 (see note there) we find that -the king's garden" was very near to the Kidron valley. It may be therefore that the place indicated here -beside (at) the king's house" was not far from the -king's garden" spoken of there.