2 Kings 11:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
11 1 Athaliah putteth to death all the King’s sons, except Joash the son of Ahaziah. 4 Joash is appointed King. 15 Jehoiada causeth Athaliah to be slain. 17 He maketh a covenant between God and the people. 18 Baal and his priests are destroyed.
1 Then (A)Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah when she saw that her son was dead, she arose, and destroyed all the [a]King’s seed.
2 But Jehosheba the daughter of king Joram, and sister to Ahaziah [b]took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the King’s sons that should be slain, both him and his nurse, keeping them in [c]the bedchamber, and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
3 And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years, and Athaliah did reign over the land.
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- 2 Kings 11:1 Meaning, all the posterity of Jehoshaphat, to whom the kingdom appertained: thus God used the cruelty of this woman to destroy the whole family of Ahab.
- 2 Kings 11:2 The Lord promised to maintain the family of David, and not to quench the light thereof, therefore he moved the heart of Jehosheba to preserve him.
- 2 Kings 11:2 Where the Priests did lie.
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