2nd Kings Chapter 11

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11:1 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

  • (a) Meaning, all the posterity of Jehoshaphat, to whom the kingdom belonged: thus God used the cruelty of this woman to destroy the family of Ahab.

11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;

  • (b) The Lord promised to maintain the family of David, and not to quench the light of it, therefore he moved the heart of Jehosheba to preserve him.
  • (c) Where the priests slept.

11:3 He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and showed them the king's son.

  • (d) The chief priest, Jehosheba’s husband.

11:5 He commanded them, saying, "This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

  • (e) Of the Levites, who had charge of the keeping of the temple, and kept watch by course.
  • (f) That no one should come on them, while they were crowning the king.

11:6 A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

11:7 The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh around the king.

  • (h) Whose charge is ended.

11:8 You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in."

11:9 The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

11:10 The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh.

  • (k) That is, Jehoiada.

11:11 The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.

11:12 Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!"

  • (l) That is, Joash, who had been kept secret six years.
  • (m) Meaning, the law of God, which is his chief charge, and by which only his throne is established.

11:13 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and of] the people, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh:

11:14 and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!"

  • (n) Where the king’s place was in the temple.

11:15 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks. Kill him who follows her with the sword." For the priest said, "Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh."

  • (o) To take her part.

11:16 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house. She was slain there.

11:17 Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people.

  • (p) That both the king and the people should maintain the true worship of God and destroy all idolatry.
  • (q) That he should govern and they obey in the fear of God.

11:18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.

  • (r) Even in the place where he had blasphemed God, and thought to have been helped by his idol, there God poured his vengeance on him.
  • (s) That is, Jehoiada.

11:19 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.

11:20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.

  • (t) Who by his cruelty and persecution had troubled the whole land.

11:21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

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