2 Kings 9:27
9:27 When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what happened, he took off up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him and ordered, “Shoot him too.” They shot him while he was driving his chariot up the ascent of Gur near Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo and died there.
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.
2 Kings 11:3-4
11:3 He hid out with his nurse in the
Lord’s temple
for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians and the royal bodyguard. He met with them in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.
2 Kings 11:21
Joash’s Reign over Judah
11:21 (12:1) Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
2 Kings 11:2
11:2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked
him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored.
So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.
2 Kings 24:1-14
24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him.
24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets.
24:3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed.
24:4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.
24:5 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign and all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.
24:6 He passed away and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.
24:7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.
Jehoiachin’s Reign over Judah
24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.
24:9 He did evil in the sight of the Lord as his ancestors had done.
24:10 At that time the generals of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.
24:11 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.
24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took Jehoiachin prisoner.
24:13 Nebuchadnezzar took from there all the riches in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace. He removed all the gold items which King Solomon of Israel had made for the Lord’s temple, just as the Lord had warned.
24:14 He deported all the residents of Jerusalem, including all the officials and all the soldiers (10,000 people in all). This included all the craftsmen and those who worked with metal. No one was left except for the poorest among the people of the land.