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2 Kings 11:1
“Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 11
1
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;
3
He was with her hidden in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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