2 Kings 11:11-21

11 The guards, each with weapon in hand, stationed themselves around the king—near the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.

12 Jehoiada brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him; he presented him with a copy of the covenant and proclaimed him king. They anointed him, and the people clapped their hands and shouted, “Long live the king!”

13 When Athaliah heard the noise made by the guards and the people, she went to the people at the temple of the LORD.

14 She looked and there was the king, standing by the pillar, as the custom was. The officers and the trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her robes and called out, “Treason! Treason!”

15 Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops: “Bring her out between the ranks^[a] and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the temple of the LORD.”

16 So they seized her as she reached the place where the horses enter the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.

17 Jehoiada then made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.

18 All the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. Then Jehoiada the priest posted guards at the temple of the LORD.

19 He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards and all the people of the land, and together they brought the king down from the temple of the LORD and went into the palace, entering by way of the gate of the guards. The king then took his place on the royal throne.

20 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was calm, because Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the palace.

21 Joash^[b] was seven years old when he began to reign.^[c]

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2 Kings 11:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 11

This chapter relates how that Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, being hid and preserved, when his grandmother murdered all the seed royal, after six years was produced, 2Ki 11:1-3, when Jehoiada the priest set a sufficient guard about him, and the king's house, and anointed him king, 2Ki 11:4-12, and Athaliah his grandmother, who had reigned six years, was put to death by the order of the priest, 2Ki 10:13-16, and then a covenant was made between the Lord, and the king, and the people, and between the king and the people; and he was placed on the throne, to the satisfaction of the people, and the quiet thereof, 2Ki 10:17-21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 18

1. Exodus 25:16; 2 Kings 23:3
2. S 1 Samuel 9:16; S 1 Kings 1:39
3. Psalms 47:1; Psalms 98:8; Isaiah 55:12
4. S 1 Samuel 10:24
5. S 1 Kings 7:15; 2 Kings 23:3; 2 Chronicles 34:31
6. S 1 Kings 1:39
7. S Genesis 37:29
8. 2 Kings 9:23
9. 1 Kings 2:30
10. Nehemiah 3:28; Jeremiah 31:40
11. S Genesis 4:14
12. S Exodus 24:8; 2 Samuel 5:3; 2 Chronicles 15:12; 2 Chronicles 23:3; 2 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Chronicles 34:31; Ezra 10:3
13. 2 Kings 23:3; Jeremiah 34:8
14. S 1 Kings 16:32
15. S Deuteronomy 12:3
16. 1 Kings 18:40; 2 Kings 10:25; 2 Kings 23:20
17. ver 4
18. Proverbs 11:10; Proverbs 28:12; Proverbs 29:2

Footnotes 3

[a]. Or "out from the precincts"
[b]. Hebrew "Jehoash," a variant of "Joash"
[c]. In Hebrew texts this verse (11:21) is numbered 12:1.