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2 Kings 11:3

And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Athaliah;   Church;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Joash;   Orphan;   Temple;   Usurpation;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fatherless;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Athaliah;   Joash or Jehoash;   King, Kings;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Fulfillment;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehosheba;   King;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Athaliah;   Canaan, History and Religion of;   History;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Queen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Athaliah;   Chronicles, I;   Government;   Jehoash;   Jerusalem;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Athaliah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Athaliah;   Joash;   Queen;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Athaliah;   Joel (2);   Priest, High;   Queen Mother;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Childbirth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Joash was in hiding with her in the Lord’s temple six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
Hebrew Names Version
He was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. `Atalyah reigned over the land.
King James Version
And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
English Standard Version
And he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the Lord , while Athaliah reigned over the land.
New Century Version
He hid with her in the Temple of the Lord for six years. During that time Athaliah ruled the land.
New English Translation
He hid out with his nurse in the Lord 's temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
Amplified Bible
Joash was hidden with his nurse in the house (temple) of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
New American Standard Bible
So he was kept hidden with her in the house of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord sixe yeere: and Athaliah did reigne ouer the land.
Legacy Standard Bible
So he was hidden away with her in the house of Yahweh six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.
Contemporary English Version
Joash hid in the temple with Jehosheba for six years while Athaliah ruled as queen of Judah.
Complete Jewish Bible
He remained hidden with his nurse in the house of Adonai for six years; during this time ‘Atalyah ruled the land.
Darby Translation
And he was with her hid in the house of Jehovah six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joash and Jehosheba hid in the Lord 's Temple. Joash hid there for six years. During that time Athaliah ruled over the land of Judah.
George Lamsa Translation
And he was hidden with her in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Good News Translation
For six years Jehosheba took care of the boy and kept him hidden in the Temple, while Athaliah ruled as queen.
Lexham English Bible
He remained with her in the temple of Yahweh, hidden for six years while Athaliah was reigning over the land.
Literal Translation
And he was with her in the house of Jehovah, hiding himself six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he was hyd with her in the house of the LORDE sixe yeares. But Athalia was quene in the londe.
American Standard Version
And he was with her hid in the house of Jehovah six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he was with her hyd in the house of the Lord sixe yeres: And Athalia dyd raigne ouer the lande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years; and Athaliah reigned over the land.
King James Version (1611)
And he was with her hidde in the House of the Lord, sixe yeeres: and Athaliah did reigne ouer the land.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he remained with her hid in the house of the Lord six years: and Gotholia reigned over the land.
English Revised Version
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
Berean Standard Bible
And Joash remained hidden with his nurse in the house of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he was with hir in the hows of the Lord priueli sixe yeer. Forsothe Athalia regnede on the lond sixe yeer.
Young's Literal Translation
and he is with her, in the house of Jehovah, hiding himself, six years, and Athaliah is reigning over the land.
Update Bible Version
And he was hid with her in the house of Yahweh six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
World English Bible
He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.
New King James Version
So he was hidden with her in the house of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
New Living Translation
Joash remained hidden in the Temple of the Lord for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.
New Life Bible
Joash was hid with his nurse in the house of the Lord six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
New Revised Standard
he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the Lord , while Athaliah reigned over the land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he was with her, in the house of Yahweh, hiding himself, six years, - while, Athaliah, was reigning over the land.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the land.
Revised Standard Version
and he remained with her six years, hid in the house of the LORD, while Athali'ah reigned over the land.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he was hidden with her in the house of the LORD six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

Contextual Overview

1 Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, with the woman who took care of him, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him in the bedroom; and they kept him safe from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death. 3 And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3120-3126, bc 884-878

And Athaliah: 2 Chronicles 22:12, Psalms 12:8, Malachi 3:15

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 12:1 - the seventh Nehemiah 6:10 - the house

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
Genesis 11:6
And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
Genesis 11:18
And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
Exodus 2:3
And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years,.... In the temple; not in the holy of holies, as Jarchi, but in a chamber of the priests and Levites, of which there were several in a temple, as Kimchi, and others; and the husband of Jehosheba, being high priest, had one of them for his own use; and here the child was hid six years, so that he was but a year old when he was first taken and preserved, for he was made king when seven years of age, 2 Kings 11:21,

and Athaliah did reign over the land; the only instance we hear of a woman reigning in Israel, and this was not by right, but by usurpation; and so, according to the Jewish canons, a woman might not rule; which thus runs a, they do not set a woman in the kingdom, as it is said, Deuteronomy 17:15, "a king over them", not a queen; and so, in all places of power and authority in Israel, they put in them none but a man.

a Maimon. Hilchot Melachim, c. 1. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Athaliah did reign over the land - In these words the writer dismisses the entire reign of Athaliah, whereof he scorns to speak. We gather incidentally from 2 Kings 12:5-12, compared with 2 Chronicles 24:7, that Athaliah used her power to establish the exclusive worship of BaaI through the kingdom of Judah, and to crush that of Yahweh. She stopped the temple service, gave over the sacred vessels of the sanctuary to the use of the Baal priests, and employed the temple itself as a quarry from which materials might be taken for the construction of a great temple to Baal, which rose in the immediate neighborhood.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 11:3. He was - hid in the house of the Lord — This might be readily done, because none had access to the temple but the priests; and the high priest himself was the chief manager of this business.


 
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