10But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
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And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. …
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-12)We have here what we had before, 2 Kgs. 11:1-16 1. A wicked woman endeavouring to destroy the house of David, that she might set up a throne for herself upon the ruins of it. Athaliah barbarously cut off all the seed-royal (2 Chron. 22:10), perhaps intending to transmit the crown of Judah after herself to some of her own relations, that though her family was cut off in Israel by Jehu it might be p…
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