Lièwángjìxià 11:1

1 Yà hā xiè de mǔqin Yàtālìyǎ jiàn tā érzi sǐ le , jiù qǐlai jiǎo miè wáng shì .

Lièwángjìxià 11:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 11:1

And when Athaiah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
was dead
Who was the daughter of Ahab, and granddaughter of Omri ( 2 Kings 8:18 2 Kings 8:26 ) , she arose,

and destroyed all the seed royal;
that were left, for many had been slain already; the sons of Jehoshaphat, the brothers of Joram, were slain by him, ( 2 Chronicles 21:4 ) and all Joram's sons, excepting Ahaziah, were slain by the Arabians, ( 2 Chronicles 22:1 ) , and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah were slain by Jehu, ( 2 Kings 11:8 ) , these therefore seem to be the children of Ahaziah, the grandchildren of this brutish woman, whom she massacred out of her ambition of rule and government, which perhaps she was intrusted with while her son went to visit Joram king of Israel; other reasons are by some assigned, but this seems to be the chief. For the same reason Laodice, who had six sons by Ariarathes king of the Cappadocians, poisoned five of them; the youngest escaping her hands, was murdered by the people ^F24, as this woman also was.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Justin. e Trogo, l. 37. c. 1.

Lièwángjìxià 11:1 In-Context

1 Yà hā xiè de mǔqin Yàtālìyǎ jiàn tā érzi sǐ le , jiù qǐlai jiǎo miè wáng shì .

2 Dàn Yuēlán wáng de nǚér , yà hā xiè de meìzi yuē Shìbā , jiāng yà hā xiè de érzi yuē a shī cóng nà beì shā de wáng zǐ zhōng tōu chūlai , bǎ tā hé tāde rǔmǔ dōu cáng zaì wòfáng lǐ , duǒbì Yàtālìyǎ , miǎndé beì shā .

3 Yuē a shī hé tāde rǔmǔ cáng zaì Yēhéhuá de diàn lǐ liù nián . Yàtālìyǎ cuàn le guó wèi .

4 Dì qī nián , Yéhéyédà dǎfa rén jiào jiā lì rén ( huò zuò qīn bīng ) hé hùwèi bīng de zhòng bǎifūzhǎng lái , lǐng tāmen jìn le Yēhéhuá de diàn , yǔ tāmen lì yuē , shǐ tāmen zaì Yēhéhuá diàn lǐ qǐshì , yòu jiāng wáng de érzi zhǐ gĕi tāmen kàn ,

5 Fēnfu tāmen shuō , nǐmen dāng zhèyàng xíng , fán ānxīrì jìn bān de sān fēn ...zhīyī yào kānshǒu wánggōng ,