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2 Kings 11:1
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When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
Now when `Atalyah the mother of Achazyah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.
When Ahaziah's mother, Athaliah, saw that her son was dead, she killed all the royal family.
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah [king of Judah] saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and eliminated all the royal children.
Then Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah when she saw that her sonne was dead, she arose, & destroyed all the Kings seede.
Now Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son had died. So she rose and caused all the royal seed to perish.
As soon as Athaliah heard that her son King Ahaziah was dead, she decided to kill any relative who could possibly become king. She would have done that,
When ‘Atalyah the mother of Achazyah saw that her son was dead, she set about destroying the entire royal family.
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose up and destroyed all the royal seed.
Athaliah was Ahaziah's mother. She saw that her son was dead, so she got up and killed all the king's family.
AND when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs.
As soon as King Ahaziah's mother Athaliah learned of her son's murder, she gave orders for all the members of the royal family to be killed.
Now Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, so she prepared to destroy all of the offspring of the royal family.
And Athaliah was the mother of Ahaziah. And when she saw that her son was dead, then she rose up and destroyed all the seed of the kingdom.
Athalia the mother of Ochosias, wha she sawe that hir sonne was deed, gat her vp, and destroyed all the kynges sede.
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
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.
And Athalia ye mother of Ahaziahu, when she saw that her sonne was dead, she arose, and destroyed all the kinges seede.
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah sawe that her sonne was dead, she arose, and destroyed all the seed royall.
And Gotholia the mother of Ochozias saw that her son was dead, and she destroyed all the seed royal.
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
Forsothe Athalie, modir of Ocozie, siy hir sone deed, and sche roos, and killide al the seed of the kyng.
And Athaliah [is] mother of Ahaziah, and she hath seen that her son [is] dead, and she riseth, and destroyeth all the seed of the kingdom;
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed.
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 Chronicles 22:10-12">[xr] When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs.
When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she began to destroy the rest of the royal family.
When Ahaziah's mother Athaliah saw that her son was dead, she got up and killed all the king's children.
Now when Athaliah, Ahaziah's mother, saw that her son was dead, she set about to destroy all the royal family.
Now, when, Athaliah, mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.
Now when Athali'ah the mother of Ahazi'ah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.
Athaliah was the mother of Ahaziah. When she saw that her son was dead, she took over. She began by massacring the entire royal family. But Jehosheba, daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah's son Joash and kidnapped him from among the king's sons slated for slaughter. She hid him and his nurse in a private room away from Athaliah. He didn't get killed. He was there with her, hidden away for six years in The Temple of God . Athaliah, oblivious to his existence, ruled the country.
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 3120, bc 884
Athaliah: 2 Chronicles 22:10, 2 Chronicles 24:7
the mother: 2 Kings 8:26, 2 Kings 9:27
and destroyed: A similar history is related by Mr. Bruce, as having occurred in Abyssinia. Judith "surprised the rock Damo, and slew the whole of the princes, to the number, it is said, of about 400;" while the infant king, Del Naad, was conveyed for safety to a loyal province, and afterwards restored. Matthew 2:13, Matthew 2:16, Matthew 21:38, Matthew 21:39
seed royal: Heb. seed of the kingdom, 2 Kings 25:25, *marg. Jeremiah 41:1
Reciprocal: Judges 9:5 - slew 1 Kings 1:12 - the life 2 Kings 10:7 - slew seventy 2 Kings 10:14 - neither left 2 Kings 11:14 - Treason 2 Kings 12:1 - the seventh 2 Chronicles 18:1 - joined affinity Psalms 109:14 - let not Proverbs 14:1 - the foolish Isaiah 3:12 - children Isaiah 49:15 - they may Jeremiah 41:7 - slew Matthew 14:8 - Give
Cross-References
At that time five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord who commands armies. One will be called the City of the Sun.
Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the Lord 's name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.
When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when Athaiah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead,.... Who was the daughter of Ahab, and granddaughter of Omri 2 Kings 8:18, she arose,
and destroyed all the seed royal; that were left, for many had been slain already; the sons of Jehoshaphat, the brothers of Joram, were slain by him, 2 Chronicles 21:4 and all Joram's sons, excepting Ahaziah, were slain by the Arabians, 2 Chronicles 22:1, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah were slain by Jehu, 2 Kings 11:8, these therefore seem to be the children of Ahaziah, the grandchildren of this brutish woman, whom she massacred out of her ambition of rule and government, which perhaps she was intrusted with while her son went to visit Joram king of Israel; other reasons are by some assigned, but this seems to be the chief. For the same reason Laodice, who had six sons by Ariarathes king of the Cappadocians, poisoned five of them; the youngest escaping her hands, was murdered by the people x, as this woman also was.
x Justin. e Trogo, l. 37. c. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Athaliah, as wife of Joram and mother of Ahaziah, had guided both the internal and the external policy of the Jewish kingdom; she had procured the establishmeut of the worship of Baal in Judaea 2 Kings 8:18, 2 Kings 8:27, and had maintained a close alliance with the sister kingdom 2Ki 8:29; 2 Kings 10:13. The revolution effected by Jehu touched her nearly. It struck away from her the support of her relatives; it isolated her religious system, severing the communication with Phoenicia; and the death of Ahaziah deprived her of her legal status in Judaea, which was that of queen-mother (the 1 Kings 15:13 note), and trausferred that position to the chief wife of her deceased son. Athaliah, instead of yielding to the storm, or merely standing on the defensive, resolved to become the assailant, and strike before any plans could be formed against her. In the absence of her son, hers was probably the chief anthority at Jerusalem. She used it to command the immediate destruction of all the family of David, already thinned by previous massacres 2 Kings 10:14; 2Ch 21:4, 2 Chronicles 21:17, and then seized the throne.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XI
Athaliah destroys all that remain of the seed royal of Judah, 1.
Jehosheba hides Joash the son of Ahaziah, and he remains hidden
in the house of the Lord six years; and Athaliah reigns over the
land, 2, 3.
Jehoiada, the high priest, calls the nobles privately together
into the temple, shows them the kings son, takes an oath of
them, arms them, places guards around the temple, and around
the young king's person; they anoint and proclaim him, 4-12.
Athaliah is alarmed, comes into the temple, is seized, carried
forth, and slain, 13-16.
Jehoiada causes the people to enter into a covenant with the
Lord; they destroy Baal's house, priest, and images, 17, 18.
Joash is brought to the king's house, reigns, and all the land
rejoices, 19-21.
NOTES ON CHAP. XI
Verse 2 Kings 11:1. Athaliah — This woman was the daughter of Ahab, and grand-daughter of Omri, and wife of Joram king of Judah, and mother of Ahaziah.
Destroyed all the seed royal. — All that she could lay her hands on whom Jehu had left; in order that she might get undisturbed possession of the kingdom.
How dreadful is the lust of reigning! it destroys all the charities of life; and turns fathers, mothers, brothers, and children, into the most ferocious savages! Who, that has it in his power, makes any conscience
"To swim to sovereign rule through seas of blood?"
In what a dreadful state is that land that is exposed to political revolutions, and where the succession to the throne is not most positively settled by the clearest and most decisive law! Reader, beware of revolutions; there have been some useful ones, but they are in general the heaviest curse of God.
