12And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. …
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
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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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