2 Kings 4:19-20
Context4:19 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
ContextAthaliah 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


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