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2 Kings 11:3

He hid out with his nurse in the Lord 's temple for six years, 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling 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 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. 2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah's son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution. 3 He hid out with his nurse in the Lord 's temple for six years, 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
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."
Genesis 11:6
And the Lord said, "If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let's go down and confuse their language so they won't be able to understand each other."
Genesis 11:18
When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.
Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.
Exodus 1:14
They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.
Exodus 2:3
But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.
2 Samuel 12:31
He removed the people who were in it and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast, "Who will see them?"
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

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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