Second
Kings
Chapter 11
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11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah
saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
11:2 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.
11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign
over the land.
11:4 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.
11:5 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;
11:6 And a third part shall be at the gate of
Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the
house, that it be not broken down.
11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch
of the house of the LORD about the king.
11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand:
and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he
goeth out and as he cometh in.
11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the
priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath,
with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and
shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king,
from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar
and the temple.
11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the
testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and
said, God save the king.
11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the
people into the temple of the LORD.
11:14 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.
11:15 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.
11:16 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.
11:17 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.
11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his
altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal
before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the
people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by
the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the
kings.
11:20 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.
11:21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
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