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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 11:1 - 11:1
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2Ki 11:1-3. Jehoash saved from Athaliah’s massacre.
Athaliah - (See on 2Ch 22:2). She had possessed great influence over her son, who, by her counsels, had ruled in the spirit of the house of Ahab.
destroyed all the seed royal - all connected with the royal family who might have urged a claim to the throne, and who had escaped the murderous hands of Jehu (2Ch 21:2-4; 2Ch 22:1; 2Ki 10:13, 2Ki 10:14). This massacre she was incited to perpetrate - partly from a determination not to let David’s family outlive hers; partly as a measure of self-defense to secure herself against the violence of Jehu, who was bent on destroying the whole of Ahab’s posterity to which she belonged (2Ki 8:18-26); but chiefly from personal ambition to rule, and a desire to establish the worship of Baal. Such was the sad fruit of the unequal alliance between the son of the pious Jehoshaphat and a daughter of the idolatrous and wicked house of Ahab.