And they laid hands on her - Most modern critics render - “and they gave her space,” i. e., they cleared a way for her, and allowed her to walk out of the temple not only unharmed but untonched.
Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 11:16
2 Kings 11:16
16 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.