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2 Kings 11:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house. "

2 Kings 11:20

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18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the LORD’s house.

19 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the LORD’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.

20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.

21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

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2 Chronicles 23:21

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"So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword."

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2 Chronicles 23:13

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"Then she looked, and behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, with the captains and the trumpeters by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!”"

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2 Kings 21:24

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"But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place."

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1 Kings 1:25

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"For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’"

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1 Kings 15:29

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"As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;"

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2 Kings 23:2

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"The king went up to the LORD’s house, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him—with the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the LORD’s house."

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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 royal offspring."

2 Kings 11:2

"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."

2 Kings 11:3

"He was with her hidden in the LORD’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land."

2 Kings 11:4

"In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the LORD’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in the LORD’s house, and showed them the king’s son."

2 Kings 11:5

"He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;"

2 Kings 11:6

"a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier."

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