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2 Kings 11:12-21

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12 He brought out the king's son, put the crown on him, gave him the testimony,[a][b]and made him king. They anointed him and clapped their hands and cried, "Long live the king!"
13 When Athaliah heard the noise from the guard [and] the crowd, she went out to the people at the Lord's temple.
14 As she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar according to the custom. The commanders and the trumpeters were by the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets.[c] Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed "Treason! Treason!"
15 Then Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, "Take her out between the ranks, and put anyone who follows her to death by the sword," for the priest had said, "She is not to be put to death in the Lord's temple."
16 So they arrested her, and she went out by way of the Horses' Entrance to the king's palace, where she was put to death.[d]

Jehoiada's Reforms

17 Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people that they would be the Lord's people and [another one] between the king and the people.[e]
18 So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke its altars and images into pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars. Then [Jehoiada] the priest appointed guards for the Lord's temple.
19 He took [with him] the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from the Lord's temple. They entered the king's palace by way of the guards' gate. Then Joash sat on the throne of the kings.
20 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death by the sword in the king's palace.[f]
21 Joash was seven years old when he became king.
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2 Kings 11:12-21 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
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Footnotes 8

  • [a] Or him the copy of the covenant, or him a diadem, or him jewels
  • [b] Ex 31:18; Dt 17:18
  • [c] Nm 10:7-10
  • [d] 2 Ch 23:1-15
  • [e] Some Gk versions, 2 Ch 23:16 omit and [another one] between the king and the people
  • [f] 2 Ch 23:16-21
  • [g] 2 Kg 12:1 in Hb
  • [h] The Lord Has Bestowed
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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