2 Chronicles 21:7

21:7 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty ¹  because of the promise ²  he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty. ³ 

2 Chronicles 22:10

Athaliah is Eliminated

22:10 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line ⁴  of Judah. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 30:7

30:7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, ⁶  provoking him to destroy them, ⁷  as you can see.

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¹ tn Heb “house.”

² tn Or “covenant.”

³ tn Heb “which he made to David, just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” Here “lamp” is metaphorical, symbolizing the Davidic dynasty.

⁴ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum, “arise”) is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

⁵ tn Heb “house of Judah.”

⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).

⁷ tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).