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11:14 Then she saw <07200> the king <04428> standing <05975> by <05921> the pillar <05982>, according to custom <04941>. The officers <08269> stood beside <0413> the king <04428> with their trumpets <02689> and all <03605> the people <05971> of the land <0776> were celebrating <08056> and blowing <08628> trumpets <02689>. Athaliah <06271> tore <07167> her clothes <0899> and screamed <07121>, “Treason <07195>, treason <07195>!” 11:15 Jehoiada <03077> the priest <03548> ordered <06680> the officers <08269> of the units of hundreds <03967>, who were in charge <06485> of the army <02428>, “Bring <03318> her outside <03318> the temple <01004> to the guards <07713>. Put <04191> the sword <02719> to anyone <04191> who <03588> follows <0310> <0935> her.” The priest <03548> gave <0559> this order <0559> because he had decided she should not <0408> be executed <04191> in the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>. 11:16 They seized <03027> <07760> her and took <0935> her into the precincts <01870> of the royal <04428> palace <01004> through the horses <05483>’ entrance <03996>. There <08033> she was executed <04191>. 11:17 Jehoiada <03077> then drew up <03772> a covenant <01285> between <0996> the Lord <03068> and the king <04428> and people <05971>, stipulating that they should be <01961> loyal to the Lord <03068>. 11:18 All <03605> the people <05971> of the land <0776> went <0935> and demolished <05422> the temple <01004> of Baal <01168>. They smashed <07665> its altars <04196> and idols <06754> to bits <03190>. They killed <02026> Mattan <04977> the priest <03548> of Baal <01168> in front <06440> of the altar <04196>. Jehoiada the priest <03548> then placed <07760> guards <06486> at <05921> the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>. 11:19 He took <03947> the officers <08269> of the units of hundreds <03967>, the Carians <03746>, the royal bodyguard <07323>, and all <03605> the people <05971> of land <0776>, and together they led <03381> the king <04428> down <03381> from the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>. They entered <0935> the royal <07323> palace <01004> through <01870> the Gate <08179> of the Royal Bodyguard, and the king <04428> sat down <03427> on <05921> the royal <04428> throne <03678>. 11:20 All <03605> the people <05971> of the land <0776> celebrated <08055>, for the city <05892> had rest <08252> now that they had killed <04191> Athaliah <06271> with the sword <02719> in the royal <04428> palace <01004>. 11:21 Jehoash <03060> was seven <07651> years <08141> old <01121> when he began to reign <04427>.

• 2Ki 11:21--12:21 -- Joash's Reign over Judah

• Jehoiada

  [isbe] JEHOIADA - je-hoi'-a-da (yehoyadha`, "Yahweh knows"; Iodae): (1) Father of Benaiah, the captain of David's body-guard (2 Sam 8:18; 20:23; 23:20,22; 1 Ki 1:8, etc.). Jehoiada was "the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel" (2 Sam 2...
  [nave] JEHOIADA 1. Father of Benaiah, one of David's officers, 2 Sam. 8:18. 2. A high priest. Overthrows Athaliah, the usurping queen of Judah, and establishes Jehoash upon the throne, 2 Kin. 11; 2 Chr. 23. Salutary influence of,...
  

• Joash

  [nave] JOASH 1. Son of Becher, 1 Chr. 7:8. 2. Keeper of the stores of oil, 1 Chr. 27:28. 3. Father of Gideon, Judg. 6:11, 29, 31; 7:14; 8:13, 29-32. 4. Son of Ahab, king of Israel, 1 Kin. 22:26; 2 Chr. 18:25. 5. Called also Jeh...
  

• JEZEBEL

  [isbe] JEZEBEL - jez'-e-bel 'izebhel, "unexalted," "unhusbanded" (?); Iezabel; see BDB; 1 Ki 16:31; 18:4,13,19; 19:1,2; 21:5 ff; 2 Ki 9:7 ff,30 ff; Rev 2:20): Daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, i.e. Phoenicians, and queen ...
  

• JOEL (2)

  [isbe] JOEL (2) - (yo'el; Ioel): I. THE PROPHET II. THE BOOK 1. Literary Form 2. Outline of Contents 3. Interpretation (1) Literal (2) Allegorical 4. Indications of Date (1) Place in the Canon (2) Language and Style (3) Quotations ...
  

• Revivals

  [nave] REVIVALS. Religious Zech. 8:20-23. Prayer for, Hab. 3:2. Prophecies concerning, Isa. 32:15; Joel 2:28; Mic. 4:1-8; Hab. 3:2. Instances of Under Joshua, Josh. 5:2-9; Samuel, 1 Sam. 7:1-6; Elijah, 1 Kin. 18:17-40; Jehoas...
  

• JEHOASH; JOASH

  [isbe] JEHOASH; JOASH - je-ho'-ash, the uncontracted form of (yeho'ash, yo'ash, "Yahweh has bestowed"; compare 2 Ki 11:2,21; 12:1,19; 2 Ch 24:1, etc.; Ioas): (1) The 9th king of Judah; son of Ahaziah and Zibiah, a woman of Beersheb...
  

• JEHOASH

  [ebd] Jehovah-given. (1.) The son of King Ahaziah. While yet an infant, he was saved from the general massacre of the family by his aunt Jehosheba, and was apparently the only surviving descendant of Solomon (2 Chr. 21:4, 17). His...
  [smith] (given by the Lord), the uncontracted form of Joash. The eighth king of Judah; son of Ahaziah. (2 Kings 11:21; 12:1,2,4,6,7,18; 14:13) [JOASH, 1] The twelfth king of Israel; son of Jehoahaz. (2 Kings 13:10,25; 14:8,9,1...
  

• Zeal

  [nave] ZEAL, Religious Josh. 24:15, 16; 2 Sam. 24:24, 25; 1 Kin. 9:4; 1 Kin. 15:14; 1 Chr. 29:17; 2 Chr. 15:15; 2 Chr. 19:3; Ezra 7:23; Job 16:19; Psa. 42:1, 2; Psa. 60:4; Psa. 96:2, 3, 10; Psa. 119:139; Prov. 11:30; Eccl. 9:10; ...
  

• Athaliah

  [ebd] whom God afflicts. (1.) The daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Kings 8:18), who "walked in the ways of the house of Ahab" (2 Chr. 21:6), called "daughter" of Omri (2 Kings 8:26). On the d...
  [nave] ATHALIAH 1. Wife of Jehoram, king of Judah, 2 Kin. 8:18, 26; 11:1-3, 12-16, 20; 2 Chr. 22:10-12; 23:12-15, 21. 2. Son of Jehoram, 1 Chr. 8:26. 3. Father of Jeshaiah, Ezra 8:7.
  

• Mattan

  [ebd] gift. (1.) A priest of Baal, slain before his altar during the reformation under Jehoiada (2 Kings 11:18). (2.) The son of Eleazar, and father of Jacob, who was the father of Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary (Matt. 1:1...
  [isbe] MATTAN - mat'-an (mattan, "a gift"): (1) A priest in the house of Baal, slain by Jehoiada before Baal's altar (2 Ki 11:18; 2 Ch 23:17). (2) The father of Shephatiah a contemporary and persecutor of Jeremiah (Jer 38:1), one o...
  [smith] (a gift). The priest of Baal slain before his altars in the idol temple at Jerusalem. (2 Kings 11:18; 2 Chronicles 23:17) He probably accompanied Athalia from Samaria. The father of Shephatiah. (Jeremiah 38:1)
  [nave] MATTAN 1. A priest of Baal slain in the idol temple at Jerusalem, 2 Kin. 11:18; 2 Chr. 23:17. 2. Father of Shephatiah, Jer. 38:1.
  

• Treason

  [isbe] TREASON - tre'-z'-n: The translation of qesher, in English Versions of the Bible 1 Ki 16:20; 2 Ki 11:14 parallel 2 Ch 23:13. Qesher (from qashar, "to bind") means "a conspiracy" (2 Sam 15:12; 2 Ki 12:20, etc.), and the trans...
  [nave] TREASON. Instances of Of Aaron and Miriam against Moses, Num. 12:1-11. Of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram against Moses and Aaron, Num. 16:1-33. Of Rahab against Jericho, Josh. 2. Of the betrayer of Beth-el, Judg. 1:24, 25. ...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Church

  [nave] CHURCH, place of worship. Called Courts, Psa. 65:4; 84:2, 10; 92:13; 96:8; 100:4; 116:19; Isa. 1:12; 62:9; Zech. 3:7; House of God, Gen. 28:17, 22; Josh. 9:23; Judg. 18:31; 20:18, 26; 21:2; 1 Chr. 9:11; 24:5; 2 Chr. 5:14; 22:...
  

• Conspiracy

  [nave] CONSPIRACY. Law Against Ex. 23:1, 2 Instances of Joseph's brethren, against Joseph, Gen. 37:18-20. Miriam and Aaron, against Moses, Num. 12; 14:4; 16:1-35. Abimelech, against Gideon's sons, Judg. 9:1-6. Gaal, against ...
  

• OBED

  [isbe] OBED - o'-bed (`obhedh, "worshipper"; in the New Testament Iobed): (1) Son of Boaz and Ruth and grandfather of David (Ruth 4:17,21,22; 1 Ch 2:12; Mt 1:5; Lk 3:32). (2) Son of Ephlal and descendant of Sheshan, the Jerahmeelit...
  

• Women

  [nave] WOMEN Creation of, Gen. 1:27; 2:21, 22. Named, Gen. 2:23. Fall of, and curse upon, Gen. 3:1-16; 2 Cor. 11:3; 1 Tim. 2:14. Promise to, Gen. 3:15. Had separate apartments in dwellings, Gen. 24:67; 31:33; Esth. 2:9, 11. Ve...
  

• Usurpation

  [nave] USURPATION. Of Political Functions By Absalom, 2 Sam. 15:1-12. By Adonijah, 1 Kin. 1:5-9. By Baasha, 1 Kin. 15:27, 28. By Zimri, 1 Kin. 16:9, 10. By Jehu, 2 Kin. 9:11-37. By Athaliah, 2 Kin. 11:1-16. By Shallum, 2 Ki...
  

• Temple

  [nave] TEMPLE. Solomon's Called also Temple of the Lord, 2 Kin. 11:10; Holy Temple, Psa. 79:1; Holy House, 1 Chr. 29:3; House of God, 1 Chr. 29:2; 2 Chr. 23:9; House of the Lord, 2 Chr. 23:5, 12; Jer. 28:5; Father's House, John 2...
  

• Baal

  [ebd] lord. (1.) The name appropriated to the principal male god of the Phoenicians. It is found in several places in the plural BAALIM (Judg. 2:11; 10:10; 1 Kings 18:18; Jer. 2:23; Hos. 2:17). Baal is identified with Molech (Jer....
  [nave] BAAL 1. An idol of the Phoenicians, god of the sun. Wickedly worshiped by the Israelites in the time of the judges, Judg. 2:10-23; 1 Sam. 7:3, 4; by the kingdom of Israel, 2 Kin. 17:16; Jer. 23:13; Hos. 1; 2; 13:1; under Aha...
  

• Carites

  [isbe] CARITES - kar'-i-tez (kari) , "one ready," "life-guardsman"): A body of troops mentioned in 2 Ki 11:4,19 (the King James Version "captains"). Instead of CHERETHITES (which see), the Kethibh of 2 Sam 20:23 offers the reading ...
  [nave] CARITES 2 Kin. 11:4, 19.
  

• Joash Is Made King

  

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