📖WEB · 2 Kings 11:1
What does 2 Kings 11:1 mean?
"Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring."
— 2 Kings 11:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
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 bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
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 Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.
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Biblical perspective
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Deuteronomy 11:1
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