Geneva Study Bible Commentary
2 Kings 11:20
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: (t) and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house.
(t) Who by his cruelty and persecution had troubled the whole land.
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: (t) and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house.
(t) Who by his cruelty and persecution had troubled the whole land.
Verse 2 Kings 11:20. _THE PEOPLE - REJOICED_] They were glad to get rid of the tyranny of Athaliah. _AND THE CITY WAS IN QUIET_] She had no _partisans_ to rise up and disturb the king's reign....
THEY SLEW ATHALIAH WITH THE SWORD - This is one of the many little repetitions which mark the manner of the writer, and which generally contain some little point which has not been mentioned before (c...
3. ATHALIAH AND JEHOIADA'S REVIVAL CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Athaliah's wicked reign (2 Kings 11:1; 2 Chronicles 22:10)_ 2. Joash (Jehoash) proclaimed king (2 Kings 11:4;...
2 KINGS 11. USURPATION OF ATHALIAH. CORONATION OF JOASH AND EXECUTION OF ATHALIAH. Athaliah, mother of Ahaziah, a daughter of Ahab, destroyed the royal family of Judah, except Joash, a child who was s...
LAND REJOICED. When? When the usurper had CITY WAS IN QUIET. been cast out, and slain. So shall it be when judgment shall be executed on the "prince" and "god" of this world (Revelation 19:1; Revelati...
_And_[R.V. SO] _all the people of the land rejoiced_ The attachment of Judah to the family of David had always been very great, and to see a son of that family on the throne, even though some of his b...
II. TURMOIL IN JUDAH 11:1-12:21 In 2 Kings 11:1 the history of Judah is taken up where it left off at the end of chapter 8. The forty-five years covered in Chapter s 11-12 are. characterized for the m...
ALL.. REJOICED] The brief usurpation of Athaliah was the only interruption to the orderly succession of kings of the house of David throughout the history of Judah, a fact which testifies to the stron...
THE USURPATION OF ATHALIAH AND PRESERVATION OF JOASH 1. Athaliah] She was the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel (2 Kings 8:18; 2 Kings 8:26), possessed her mother's high courage, and, like her, was a devot...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 ATHALIAH’S RULE AS QUEEN OF *JUDAH V1 King Ahaziah’s mother Athaliah heard about the death of her son. So she orde...
ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND... THE CITY. — Thenius calls this an “evident contrast between the soldiery and the. citizens; the former exulting in their work, the latter not lifting a finger while the i...
וַ יִּשְׂמַ֥ח כָּל ־עַם ־הָ אָ֖רֶץ וְ
ATHALLAH (B.C. 842-836) JOASH BEN AHAZIAH OF JUDAH (B.C. 836-796) 2 Kings 11:1; 2 Kings 12:1 " _ Par cette fin terrible, et due a ses forfaits,_ Apprenez, Roi des Juifs, et n'oubliez jamais, Q...
COVENANTING TO BE THE LORD'S PEOPLE 2 Kings 11:13 The death of Athaliah led the way to a thorough change throughout the kingdom. There was a double covenant, first, between the Lord on the one hand a...
The story now turns to Judah. When Jehu had slain Ahaziah, his mother Athaliah, the sister of Ahab and of his very nature, seized the throne by killing all the seed royal, and for six years swayed the...
Observe, in the death of Baal's priest, how human sacrifice suited their idol worship. For as Moses said, they sacrificed to devils, not to God. Deuteronomy 32:17....
But in the eleventh chapter we have another scene of deep import and interest. There is a wicked woman and when a woman is wicked there is no wickedness like hers. "And when Athaliah, the mother of Ah...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. In chapter 11, the judgment of God falls upon the family [1] which had corrupted Israel, and even Judah also. The daughter of the house of Ahab, t...
AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND REJOICED,.... That one of the house of David was set upon the throne, which they might fear was extinct, as it very near was; the lamp of David was almost quenched, only...
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house. Ver. 20. _And they slew Athaliah with the sword_] This being done...
_He took the rulers over hundreds_, &c. Brought them out of the temple, that they might conduct the king in state to the royal palace. _By the way of the gate of the guard_ By the gate of the royal pa...
1 Iehoash, being saued by Iehosheba his aunt from Athaliahs massacre of the seed royall, is hid sixe yeeres in the house of God. 4 Iehoiada giuing order to the captaines, in the seuenth yeere anointe...
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet. And they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house, none of her adherents daring to resent her execution or to venture a...
ATHALIAH SLAIN...
ATHALIAH SEIZES CONTROL OF JUDAH (vv.1-3) The fact that Jehu did not kill Athaliah left Judah exposed to the wickedness of this cruel daughter of Jezebel. Since her son had been killed, she herself...
17-21 King and people would cleave most firmly to each other, when both had joined themselves to the Lord. It is well with a people, when all the changes that pass over them help to revive, strengthe...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 11:20 people H5971 land H776 rejoiced H8055 (H8799) city H5892 quiet H8252 (H8804) slain H4191 ...
2). THE RENEWING OF THE COVENANTS OF YHWH, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SANCTUARY OF BAAL, AND THE FINAL OFFICIAL ENTHRONEMENT OF THE DAVIDIC HEIR (2 KINGS 11:17). Athaliah having been disposed of, and the...
THE REIGN IN JUDAH OF ATHALIAH THE USURPER C. 841-835 BC, OR THE REMARKABLE PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF THE DAVIDIC HEIR AND THE REFUTATION OF THE WORSHIP OF THE FOREIGN BAAL (2 KINGS 11:1). On he...
CONTENTS: Royal seed of Judah destroyed. Joash becomes king. Execution of Athaliah. Revival through Jehoida. CHARACTERS: God, Joash, Jehoida, Athaliah, Jehoshaba. CONCLUSION: All attempts to frustra...
2 Kings 11:1. _Athaliah,_ that is, wicked woman. She must have received this as a surname for her evil deeds; and justly did she merit the appellation, for she slew her grandsons at a tender age, and...
_And when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead._ THE HISTORY OF ATHALIAH The blackest names in the long roll of the world’s infamy are those of kings and queens, and amongst th...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 11:1 Joash. The destruction of the house of Ahab has greatly affected the house of David: Ahaziah (of Judah) has been killed, just like Jehoram (of Israel), and a number of Aha...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 11:20. AND ALL THE PEOPLE REJOICED—Because, with Athaliah’s death, the accursed house of Ahab ceased, and in Jehoash’s person the royal house of David was aga...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 11:1 REVOLUTION IN JUDAH, FOLLOWING THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN ISRAEL. REIGN OF ATHALIAH OVER JUDAH....
Now going back twenty-eight years. We go back now to when Jehu first became king, he killed Ahaziah, the king of Judah. And Ahaziah was the son of Athaliah, who was the daughter or a relationship to J...
2 Chronicles 23:21; 2 Kings 11:14; 2 Kings 11:15; Proverbs 11:10;...