2 Chronicles 22:10-12

Athaliah Reigns in Judah

10 ¹Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah.

11 But Jehoshabeath,^[a] the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him^[b] from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.

12 And he remained with them six years, hidden in the house of God, while Athaliah reigned over the land.

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2 Chronicles 22:10-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 22

In this chapter we have an account of the wicked reign of Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, 2Ch 22:1-4 of his death, the occasion and manner of it, 2Ch 22:5-9 and of his mother Athaliah destroying all the royal seed, excepting one, who was hid by the king's sister, and assuming the government to herself, 2Ch 22:10-12.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 1

1. For ver. 10-12, see 2 Kings 11:1-3

Footnotes 2

[a]. Spelled Jehosheba in 2 Kings 11:2
[b]. That is, Joash

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