Now please come and let me advise you. Save your life and the life of your son Solomon.
2 Chronicles 22:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But when Athaliah mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of Judah. American Standard Version (1901) Now 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. Common English Bible When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, learned of her son’s death, she immediately destroyed the entire royal family of Judah’s dynasty. Catholic Public Domain Version For indeed, his mother, Athaliah, seeing that her son had died, rose up and killed the entire royal stock of the house of Jehoram. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram. |
Now please come and let me advise you. Save your life and the life of your son Solomon.
Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be regarded as criminals.’
Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, rescued Joash son of Ahaziah from the king’s sons who were being killed and put him and the one who nursed him in a bedroom. Now Jehoshabeath was the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of the priest Jehoiada. Since she was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.
So they arrested her, and she went by the entrance of the Horse Gate to the king’s palace, where they put her to death.