2 Kings 11

1Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.Cross-references: 2Ki 8:26 · 2Ki 9:27 · 2Ki 25:25 · 2Chr 22:10 · 2Chr 24:7 · Jer 41:1 · +3 more

2But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.Cross-references: 1Ki 6:5 · 1Ki 6:8 · 1Ki 6:10 · 2Ki 8:16 · 2Ki 8:19 · 2Ki 11:21 · +10 more

3He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.Cross-references: 2Chr 22:12 · Ps 12:8 · Mal 3:15

4In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.Cross-references: Gen 50:25 · Josh 24:25 · 1Sam 18:3 · 1Sam 23:18 · 1Ki 18:10 · 2Ki 11:9 · +13 more

5He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;Cross-references: 1Ki 10:5 · 2Ki 11:19 · 2Ki 16:18 · 1Chr 9:25 · 1Chr 23:3 · 1Chr 23:32 · +5 more

6a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.Cross-references: 1Chr 26:13 · 2Chr 23:4

7The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.Cross-references: 2Ki 11:5 · 2Chr 23:6

8You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”Cross-references: Ex 21:14 · Num 27:17 · 1Ki 2:28 · 2Ki 11:15 · 2Chr 23:7

9The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.Cross-references: 2Ki 11:4 · 1Chr 26:26 · 2Chr 23:8

10The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been King David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: 1Sam 21:9 · 2Sam 8:7 · 1Chr 18:7 · 1Chr 26:26 · 2Chr 5:1 · 2Chr 23:9

11The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.Cross-references: Ex 40:6 · 2Ki 11:8 · 2Ki 11:10 · 2Chr 6:12 · Ezek 8:16 · Joel 2:17 · +2 more

12Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”Cross-references: Ex 25:16 · Ex 31:18 · Deut 17:18 · 1Sam 10:1 · 1Sam 10:24 · 1Sam 16:13 · +34 more

13When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house;Cross-references: 2Chr 23:12

14and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”Cross-references: Gen 37:29 · Gen 44:13 · Num 10:1 · 1Ki 1:39 · 1Ki 18:17 · 2Ki 9:23 · +8 more

15Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”Cross-references: 2Ki 11:4 · 2Ki 11:9 · 2Chr 23:9 · 2Chr 23:14 · Ezek 9:7 · Ezek 21:14

16So they seized her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.Cross-references: Gen 9:6 · Judg 1:7 · 2Chr 23:15 · Matt 7:2 · James 2:13 · Rev 16:5

17Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.Cross-references: Deut 5:2 · Deut 29:1 · Josh 24:25 · 1Sam 10:25 · 2Sam 5:3 · 2Ki 11:4 · +11 more

18All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Ex 32:20 · Deut 12:3 · Deut 13:5 · Deut 13:9 · 1Ki 18:40 · 2Ki 9:25 · +11 more

19He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from Yahweh’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.Cross-references: 1Ki 1:13 · 2Ki 11:4 · 1Chr 29:23 · 2Chr 23:5 · 2Chr 23:19 · Jer 17:25 · +4 more

20So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.Cross-references: 2Ki 11:14 · 2Chr 23:21 · Prov 11:10 · Prov 29:2

21Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.Cross-references: 2Ki 11:4 · 2Ki 22:1 · 2Chr 24:1