2 Kings 11:2

Contextual Overview

¹When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs. ¹ Now when `Atalyah the mother of Achazyah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. ¹ And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. ¹ Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family. ¹ When Ahaziah's mother, Athaliah, saw that her son was dead, she killed all the royal family. ¹ When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. ¹When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah [king of Judah] saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring. ¹ When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and eliminated all the royal children. ¹ Then Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah when she saw that her sonne was dead, she arose, & destroyed all the Kings seede. ¹Now Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son had died. So she rose and caused all the royal seed to perish.

Bible Verse Review
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Jehosheba: 2 Chronicles 22:11, Jehoshabeath

Joram: 2 Kings 8:16, Jehoram

Joash: 2 Kings 12:1, 2 Kings 12:2, Jehoash

they hid him: 2 Kings 8:19, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 7:6, Isaiah 7:7, Isaiah 37:35, Isaiah 65:8, Isaiah 65:9, Jeremiah 33:17, Jeremiah 33:21, Jeremiah 33:26

in the bedchamber: Bachadar hammittoth, "in a chamber of beds;" which Sir J. Chardin thinks does not mean a room to sleep in, but a chamber used as a repository for beds; for, in the East, they sleep upon cotton mattresses, "of which they have several in great houses, against they should have occasion, and a room on purpose for them." 1 Kings 6:5, 1 Kings 6:6, 1 Kings 6:8, 1 Kings 6:10, Jeremiah 35:2, Ezekiel 40:45

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:6 - hid them Judges 9:5 - slew 1 Kings 11:17 - Hadad 2 Kings 11:12 - he brought 2 Kings 11:14 - Treason Isaiah 49:15 - they may Jeremiah 41:7 - slew

Cross-References

Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Bavel, Erekh, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin`ar.

Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:10
Now, the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:10
At first Nimrod's kingdom covered Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Babylonia.

Genesis 10:10
The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].

Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:10
His kingdom began with Bavel, Erekh, Akkad and Kalneh, in the land of Shin‘ar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram,.... Not by Athaliah, but another woman; for an high priest, as her husband was, would not have married the daughter of such an idolatrous woman, nor would she have married her to him:

sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain: among whom he lay; either being cast there by the murderer, or her associates, supposed to be dead, or by his nurse, that he might be thought to be so, who acquainting his aunt with it, went and privately took him away:

and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain; that is, Jehosheba and her husband hid him and his nurse in a bedchamber; or "chamber of beds" y, in which there were more beds than one; one of the chambers of the priests and Levites in the temple, that is, which were adjoining to it; for into the sanctuary itself it was not usual to bring beds z; wherefore

the house of the Lord, in the next verse, must be understood largely as including all the appendages of it.

y בחדר המטות "in cubiculo lectorum", Pagninus, Montanus. So Sept. &c. z T. Bab. Tamid, c. 1. fol. 26. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jehosheba ... sister of Ahaziah - “Half-sister,” according to Josephus - daughter of Joram, not by Athaliah, but by another wife. She was married to Jehoiada the high priest, and was thus in a position to save and conceal her nephew, Joash, who was only one year old (compare 2 Kings 11:3, 2 Kings 11:21).

In the bedchamber - literally, “in the chamber of mattresses” - probabIy a store-room in the palace in which mattresses were kept.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 11:2. Daughter of - Joram, sister of Ahaziah — It is not likely that Jehosheba was the daughter of Athaliah; she was sister, we find, to Ahaziah the son of Athaliah, but probably by a different mother. The mother of Jehoash was Zibiah of Beer-sheba; see 2 Kings 12:1.