2 Kings 11:1

And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Athaliah	וַֽעֲתַלְיָה֙ va.'a.tal.Yah	H6271	Athaljah · conjunction + proper noun, a woman's name
mother	אֵ֣ם 'em	H517	a mother (as the bond of the family) · noun, common feminine singular construct
Ahaziah	אֲחַזְיָ֔הוּ 'a.chaz.Ya.hu	H274	Achazjah · proper noun, a man's name
saw	רָאֲתָ֖ה ra.'a.tah	H7200	to see · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular
son	בְּנָ֑הּ be.Nah	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
dead	מֵ֣ת met	H4191	to die (literally or figuratively) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
arose	וַתָּ֙קָם֙ va.Ta.kom	H6965	to rise (in various applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
destroyed	וַתְּאַבֵּ֔ד va.te.'a.Bed	H6	properly · conjunction + verb, piel sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
seed	זֶ֥רַע Ze.ra'	H2233	seed · noun, common masculine singular construct
royal	הַמַּמְלָכָֽה ha.mam.la.Khah	H4467	dominion · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Jeremiah 41:1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the k…
2 Kings 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with…
2 Chronicles 22:10-12 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
2 Chronicles 24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did…
Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Beth…
2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the d…
2 Kings 9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also i…
Matthew 21:38-39 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritanc…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 11:1-3

God had assured David of the continuance of his family, which is called his ordaining a lamp for his anointed; and this cannot but appear a great thing, now that we have read of the utter extirpation of so many royal families, one after another. Now here we have David's promised lamp almost extinguished and yet wonderfully preserved. I. It was almost extinguished by the barbarous malice of Athaliah, the queen-mother, who, when she heard that her son Ahaziah was slain by Jehu, arose and destroyed all the seed-royal (Kg2 11:1), all that she knew to be akin to the crown. Her husband Jehoram had slain all his brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Ch2 21:4. The Arabians had slain all Jehoram's sons e…

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Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 11:1

Athaliah - This woman was the daughter of Ahab, and grand-daughter of Omri, and wife of Joram king of Judah, and mother of Ahaziah. Destroyed all the seed royal - All that she could lay her hands on whom Jehu had left; in order that she might get undisturbed possession of the kingdom. How dreadful is the lust of reigning! it destroys all the charities of life; and turns fathers, mothers, brothers, and children, into the most ferocious savages! Who, that has it in his power, makes any conscience "To swim to sovereign rule through seas of blood?" In what a dreadful state is that land that is exposed to political revolutions, and where the succession to the throne is not most positively settled…

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John Gill on 2 Kings 11:1

And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead,.... Who was the daughter of Ahab, and granddaughter of Omri 2 Kings 8:18, 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 vi…

The Church Fathers

Athaliah exterminated all the royal children. In fact, after her son had been killed by Jehu, she had conceived an extremely perfidious and vicious scheme, saying to herself with anger, "I will reign just the same against the will of God by fighting God's promises, and I will make the posterity of David's house perish, as the descendants of my father's house have perished and have been exterminated." That scheme resembled the treachery that Satan plotted at the beginning against the chief of our race. However, her scheme was not accomplished, but after seven years the kingdom returned to the family of David, thanks to a righteous man, Jehoiada, the husband of Jehosheba, Joram's daughter, who had brought up Joash, son of Ahaziah.
— Ishodad of Merv, BOOKS OF SESSIONS 2 KINGS 11:1

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Dictionary and topics

Athaliah — Whom God afflicts. (1.) The daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Kings 8:18), who “walked in the ways of the house of Ahab” (2 Chr. 21:6), called “daughter” of Omri…
Athaliah · 1. Wife of Jehoram, king of — 1. Wife of Jehoram, king of
Fatherless · Exemplified: Joash — Exemplified: Joash
Joash · for six years — for six years
Kings · Who reigned over Judah: Athaliah, mother of Ahaziah (usurper) — Who reigned over Judah: Athaliah, mother of Ahaziah (usurper)
Massacre · .Royal seed of Athaliah — .Royal seed of Athaliah
Orphan · .Joash — .Joash
Usurpation · .By Athaliah — .By Athaliah

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 11:1-3

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 11:1

John Gill on 2 Kings 11:1

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 11:1-3

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 11:1

John Gill on 2 Kings 11:1

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 11:1-16