2 Kings 11:1

Athaliah is Eliminated

11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. ¹ 

2 Kings 17:20

17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated ²  them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

¹ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum) “arise,” is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

² tn Or “afflicted.”