_AND WHEN ATHALIAH THE MOTHER OF AHAZIAH SAW THAT HER SON WAS DEAD, SHE AROSE AND DESTROYED ALL THE SEED ROYAL._ Athaliah - (see the notes at 2 Chronicles 22:2.) She had possessed great influence over her son, who, her counsels, had ruled in the spirit of the house of Ahab. DESTROYED ALL THE SEED... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JEHOSHEBA, THE DAUGHTER OF KING JORAM, SISTER OF AHAZIAH, TOOK JOASH THE SON OF AHAZIAH, AND STOLE HIM FROM AMONG THE KING'S SONS WHICH WERE SLAIN; AND THEY HID HIM, EVEN HIM AND HIS NURSE, IN THE BEDCHAMBER FROM ATHALIAH, SO THAT HE WAS NOT SLAIN._ Jehosheba - or Jehoshabeath (2 Chronicles 22... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WAS WITH HER HID IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD SIX YEARS. AND ATHALIAH DID REIGN OVER THE LAND._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SEVENTH YEAR JEHOIADA SENT AND FETCHED THE RULERS OVER HUNDREDS, WITH THE CAPTAINS AND THE GUARD, AND BROUGHT THEM TO HIM INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND MADE A COVENANT WITH THEM, AND TOOK AN OATH OF THEM IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND SHEWED THEM THE KING'S SON._ And the seventh year - na... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE COMMANDED THEM, SAYING, THIS IS THE THING THAT YE SHALL DO; A THIRD PART OF YOU THAT ENTER IN ON THE SABBATH SHALL EVEN BE KEEPERS OF THE WATCH OF THE KING'S HOUSE;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN ATHALIAH HEARD THE NOISE OF THE GUARD AND OF THE PEOPLE, SHE CAME TO THE PEOPLE INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD._ Athaliah heard the noise. The profound secrecy with which the conspiracy had been conducted rendered the unusual acclamations of the vast assembled crowd the more startling, and r... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN SHE LOOKED, BEHOLD, THE KING STOOD BY A PILLAR, AS THE MANNER WAS, AND THE PRINCES AND THE TRUMPETERS BY THE KING, AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND REJOICED, AND BLEW WITH TRUMPETS: AND ATHALIAH RENT HER CLOTHES, AND CRIED, TREASON, TREASON._ The king stood by the pillar - probably on a pla... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JEHOIADA THE PRIEST COMMANDED THE CAPTAINS OF THE HUNDREDS, THE OFFICERS OF THE HOST, AND SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE HER FORTH WITHOUT THE RANGES: AND HIM THAT FOLLOWETH HER KILL WITH THE SWORD. FOR THE PRIEST HAD SAID, LET HER NOT BE SLAIN IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ Without the ranges - i:e., fence... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY LAID HANDS ON HER; AND SHE WENT BY THE WAY BY THE WHICH THE HORSES CAME INTO THE KING'S HOUSE: AND THERE WAS SHE SLAIN._ She went the way by the which the horses came into the king's house. 'This is by no means the king's palace, as is generally supposed, but is evidently the royal stable... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JEHOIADA MADE A COVENANT BETWEEN THE LORD AND THE KING AND THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY SHOULD BE THE LORD'S PEOPLE; BETWEEN THE KING ALSO AND THE PEOPLE._ A covenant between the Lord and the king and the people. The covenant with the Lord was a renewal of the national covenant with Israel (Exodus 19... [ Continue Reading ]