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2 Kings 4:19-20

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4:19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father 1  told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 4:20 So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap 2  until noon and then died.

2 Kings 11:1

Context
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. 3 

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[4:19]  1 tn Heb “He”; the referent (the boy’s father) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:20]  2 tn Heb “knees.”

[11:1]  3 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.



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