2 Kings 11:1-3. Athaliah, having slain all the seed royal of Judah, except Joash, usurps the throne for six years (2 Chronicles 22:10-12) 1. _And_[R.V. NOW] _when Athaliah_ Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and became the wife of Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat. _she arose and destroye... [ Continue Reading ]
_But Jehosheba_ Called in 2 Chronicles 22:11 Jehoshabeath. She was only half sister to Ahaziah, and not the daughter of Athaliah. Josephus says she was Ὁχοζίᾳ ὁμοπάτριος ἀδελφή. In Chronicles we learn that she was the wife of Jehoiada the priest, which explains the ease with which she could arrange... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he was with her_ i.e. With his nurse, who continued to tend him after he had grown somewhat older. in _the house of the Lord_ We learn from the description of Solomon's temple (see note on 1 Kings 6:5) that it was surrounded on two sides and one end with three stories of chambers. It is not sa... [ Continue Reading ]
Jehoiada the priest makes Joash king, and Athaliah is put to death (2 Chronicles 23:1-15) 4. _And the_[R.V. IN THE] _seventh year_ So Chronicles. Jehoiada's name is introduced very abruptly and without any specification of his office till we come to verse 9. This points to an early date for the doc... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he commanded them_ The two things to be provided for were the safety of the young king's person when it should be known to Athaliah and her party that he was alive, and the guarding of the royal palace, so that no personal troop of Athaliah's might make an attack on the king's party, and at the... [ Continue Reading ]
_at the gate of Sur_ R.V. omits -of". This gate is nowhere else named. The similarity between the original words סור, _Sur_and יסור given in Chronicles, and rendered -foundation", makes it not unlikely that the -gate Sur" here, and -the gate of the foundation" (2 Chronicles 23:5) are the same place,... [ Continue Reading ]
_And two parts of all you that go forth_ R.V. AND THE TWO COMPANIES OF YOU, EVEN ALL THAT GO FORTH. All those men who were going off duty at the palace were to divide themselves into two bodies, and go and serve at the temple to protect the king. The -of you" refers to the purely military body, as i... [ Continue Reading ]
_And ye shall compass the king round about_ Though the pronoun is changed, the same persons are intended, who were to be a bodyguard for the young king in every movement at this critical time. _he that cometh within the ranges_ R.V. RANKS. This is the point where the distinction is most marked betwe... [ Continue Reading ]
_and the captains over the_[R.V. omits THE] _hundreds did according to all things_ R.V. omits THINGS, for which there is nothing in the original. It is also not in the Hebrew of 2 Chronicles, though there the A.V. prints it without italics. R.V. omits it there also. The Levites must have been in som... [ Continue Reading ]
_And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give_ R.V. AND THE PRIEST DELIVERED TO THE CAPTAINS OVER HUNDREDS. Thus the English is made to correspond to the Hebrew order more closely, and to the translation in 2 Chron. It is to be observed that both accounts agree about the weapons being deliv... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the guard stood_ These are the -runners", the foot-soldiers, whose duty was on the outside of the temple. _round about the king_, &c. The R.V. changes the order of words here, as well as the rendering, to that which is adopted for the same Hebrew in 2 Chron. They are thus translated, FROM THE R... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he brought forth the king's son_ i.e. Jehoiada did so, who had charge of him. The name -king's son" is perhaps given to him here rather than his personal name, to mark that the struggle was for the true successor. _and_gave him _the Testimony_ The word so rendered occurs first in Exodus 16:34,... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when Athaliah heard the noise_ The arrangements had all been made so cautiously that the queen-mother had no knowledge of what was being done. But we may suppose that ere long the report would reach her through her attendants, and so she went, where otherwise she was not wont to go, toward the... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when she looked, behold, the king_ R.V. AND SHE LOOKED AND BEHOLD THE KING. This, the literal translation of the Hebrew, is the form adopted in 2 Chron. The original is the same in both places. _stood by a_[R.V. THE] _pillar_ By this word is clearly designated some spot which was the special po... [ Continue Reading ]
_But_[R.V. AND] _Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the_[R.V. omits _the hundreds, the officers of the host_ R.V. THAT WERE SET OVER THE HOST. The changes bring the version into close agreement with 2 Chron. By the -host" is meant the combined body who had been gathered by Jehoiada, and p... [ Continue Reading ]
_And they laid hands on her_ R.V. SO THEY MADE WAY FOR HER. The rendering of the A.V. agrees with the LXX. and the Vulgate. But the verb here used is not that employed for such an act as the arrest here described would be. It is better therefore to adopt the translation of the Targum followed by Jew... [ Continue Reading ]
Jehoiada restores the worship of God. The house of Baal is destroyed. Joash is brought to the palace and enthroned (2 Chronicles 23:16 to 2 Chronicles 24:1) 17. _And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord_ In 2 Chron. -Jehoiada" stands in the place of Jehovah, and it is said he made a covenant b... [ Continue Reading ]
_went_into [R.V. TO] _the house of Baal_ Athaliah had set up Baal worship in Judah after the fashion of the northern kingdom. We are told also in 2 Chronicles 24:7 that the sons of Athaliah had broken up (i.e. broken into) the house of God, and bestowed the dedicated things of the house of the Lord... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he took the rulers_[R.V. CAPTAINS] _and the captains_ R.V. THE CARITES. On these words cf. above on verse 4. _and they brought down the king_ The movement was a popular one, the people taking part with the soldiers and the priests. In 2 Chron. -the nobles and the governors of the people" are i... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 blood was of Ahab's house, was far more to the mind of the people than to be ruled over by a daughter... [ Continue Reading ]
_Seven years old_was _Jehoash_ R.V. JEHOASH WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD. This is the arrangement of the words in 2 Chron. Joash and Jehoash are duplicate forms of the same kind as have been noticed above on 2 Kings 10:15. The shorter form is used by the Chronicler, and is found presently below in 2 Kings 12... [ Continue Reading ]