The nation now had its rightful king and the guard its true master. After years of misrule by a scion of the house of Ahab, the guard must have accepted their new king and their new responsibility with loud shouts of joy. These shouts, mingled with the jubilation of the people, reached the ears of the hated queen and filled her with alarm and consternation.
She came to the people.
The center of the shouting and of the festivities was clearly in the Temple, and thither the queen made her way. The indication is that she went alone. If she summoned her personal guard stationed about the palace, it no longer obeyed her orders, but stayed where it was, obedient to the orders of Jehoiada (vs. 5, 6).