stood: The Orientals considered a seat by a pillar or column as particularly honourable.
a pillar: 2 Kings 23:3; 2 Chronicles 34:31
the princes: 2 Kings 11:10-11
all the people: 1 Kings 1:39-40; 1 Chronicles 12:40; Proverbs 29:2; Luke 19:37; Revelation 19:1-7
Treason: 2 Kings 11:1-2, 2 Kings 9:23; 1 Kings 18:17-18