ATHALIAH SEIZES THE GOVERNMENT (2 Chronicles 22:10).
(Comp. 2 Kings 11:1.)

(10) But when Athaliah. — See 2 Kings 11:1, with which this verse nearly coincides.

Destroyed. — So Kings and some Hebrew MSS., and all the versions. Hebrew text, she spake, a mistake of some scribe.

All the seed royal. — Even after the massacres described in 2 Chronicles 22:1; 2 Chronicles 22:8, there would doubtless be left a number of persons more or less nearly connected with the royal family, besides the immediate offspring of Ahaziah, who are, in the first instance, intended by this phrase.

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