2 Kings 11:14

Contextual Overview

¹³When Athaliah heard the noise from the guard and the crowd, she went out to the people at the Lord’s temple. ¹³ When `Atalyah heard the noise of the guard [and of] the people, she came to the people into the house of the LORD: ¹³ And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord . ¹³ When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the Lord to the people. ¹³ When Athaliah heard the noise of the guards and the people, she went to them at the Temple of the Lord . ¹³ When Athaliah heard the royal guard shout, she joined the crowd at the Lord 's temple. ¹³When Athaliah heard the sound of the guards and of the people, she went into the house of the LORD to the people. ¹³ When Athaliah heard the noise of the guards and of the people, she came to the people at the house of the LORD. ¹³ And when Athaliah heard the noyse of the running of the people, shee came in to the people in the house of the Lord. ¹³Then Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, and she came to the people in the house of Yahweh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 10:1-10

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, 2 Kings 11:11

all the people: 1 Kings 1:39, 1 Kings 1:40, 1 Chronicles 12:40, Proverbs 29:2, Luke 19:37, Revelation 19:1-7

Treason: 2 Kings 11:1, 2 Kings 11:2, 2 Kings 9:23, 1 Kings 18:17, 1 Kings 18:18

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:34 - blow ye 1 Kings 8:22 - stood before the altar 2 Kings 5:7 - that he rent 2 Kings 11:20 - rejoiced 2 Chronicles 6:12 - he stood 2 Chronicles 30:16 - after their manner

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was,.... Of kings, when they came into the temple on any occasion, civil or religious, therefore it is called his pillar, 2 Chronicles 23:13, some think this was the brazen scaffold erected by Solomon, 2 Chronicles 6:13, though Vitringa e and Bishop Patrick suppose it to be the post of the east gate of the inner court, from

Ezekiel 46:2, according to Jacob Leo f, this was the royal throne in the court of the Israelites, near the high or upper gate, on a marble pillar, where the kings of the house of David sat, when they came into the sanctuary to see the Lord in the second temple; this throne was like an high tower, standing upon two pillars, each twenty cubits high, and their circumference twelve; here sat Joash, and Hezekiah, and Josiah; however, Athaliah saw Jehoash with the crown on his head, and in the place where kings used to sit or stand:

and the princes and the trumpeters by the king; the rulers of the courses of the priests, and the Levites, blowing the trumpets:

and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets; it is added, in 2 Chronicles 23:13 that the singers played also on musical instruments; that were then and there assembled:

and Athaliah rent her clothes; through grief, and as one almost distracted:

and cried, treason, treason! to try if she could get any to take her part, and seize on the new king, and those that set him up.

e Proleghom. de Synagog. Vet. c. 4. p. 32. f Apud Wagenseil. Sotah, p. 680.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By a pillar - Rather, “upon the pillar” probably a sort of stand, or pulpit, raised on a pillar. Under the later monarchy the Jewish king seems to have had a special place assigned him in the temple-court, from which on occasions he addressed the people (marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 11:14. The king stood by a pillar — Stood ON a pillar or tribunal; the place or throne on which they were accustomed to put the kings when they proclaimed them.

Treason, Treason. — קשר קשר kesher, kasher; A conspiracy, A conspiracy! from kashar, to bind, unite together.