2 Kings 11:1 - Easy To Read Version

¹ Athaliah was Ahaziah’s mother. She saw that her son was dead, so she got up and killed all the king’s family.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ WHEN ATHALIAH the mother of [King] Ahaziah [of Judah] saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal descendants.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

Common English Bible

¹ When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, learned of her son’s death, she immediately destroyed the entire royal family.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Truly, Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, seeing that her son was dead, rose up and put to death all the royal offspring.

2 Kings 11:1 Cross References

Genesis 9:5

I will demand your blood for your lives. That is, I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person. And I will demand the life of any person who takes another person’s life.

Genesis 9:6

“God made people as a copy of himself. So any person who kills a person must be killed by a person.

1 Kings 1:12

Your life and the life of your son Solomon may be in danger. But I will tell you what you should do to save yourself.

1 Kings 2:44

You know the many wrong things you did against my father David. Now the Lord will punish you for those wrong things.

2 Kings 10:36

Jehu ruled over Israel in Samaria for 28 years.

2 Kings 10:7

When the leaders of the city received the letter, they took the king’s sons and killed all 70 of them. Then the leaders put the heads of the king’s sons in baskets. They sent the baskets to Jehu at Jezreel.

2 Kings 12:1

Joash began to rule during Jehu’s seventh year as king of Israel. Joash ruled 40 years in Jerusalem. Joash’s mother was named Zibiah of Beersheba.

2 Kings 25:25

Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama was from the king’s family. In the seventh month Ishmael and ten of his men attacked Gedaliah and killed all the Jews and Babylonians that were with Gedaliah at Mizpah.

2 Kings 8:26

Ahaziah was 22 years old when he began to rule. He ruled one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah. She was the daughter of Omri, the king of Israel.

2 Kings 9:27

Ahaziah king of Judah saw this, and ran away. He tried to escape through the garden house, but Jehu followed him. Jehu had said, “Shoot Ahaziah, too!”

2 Chronicles 24:7

In the past, Athaliah’s sons broke into God’s temple. {\cf2\super [273]} They used the holy things in the Lord’s temple for their worship of the Baal gods. Athaliah was a very wicked woman.

Jeremiah 41:1

In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah (the son of Elishama) came to Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael came with ten of his men. Those men came to the town of Mizpah. Ishmael was a member of the king’s family. He had been one of the officers of the king of Judah. Ishmael and his men ate a meal with Gedaliah.

Matthew 2:13

After the wise men left, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream. The angel said, “Get up! Take the baby and his mother and escape to Egypt. Herod {\cf2\super [25]} will start looking for the baby. Herod wants to kill him. So stay in Egypt until I tell you \{it is safe\}.”

Matthew 2:16

Herod {\cf2\super [29]} saw that the wise men had fooled him. Herod was very, very angry. So Herod gave an order to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and in all the area around Bethlehem. Herod had learned from the wise men the time \{the baby was born\}. It was now two years from that time. So Herod said to kill all the boys that were two years old and younger.

Judges 9:5

Abimelech went to his father’s house at Ophrah. Abimelech murdered his brothers. Abimelech killed the 70 sons of his father, Jerub Baal (Gideon). He killed them all at the same time. [78] But Jerub Baal’s youngest son hid from Abimelech and escaped. The youngest son’s name was Jotham.