2 Kings 11:1

Athaliah is Eliminated

11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. ¹ 

2 Kings 11:5

11:5 He ordered them, “This is what you must do. One third of the unit that is on duty during the Sabbath will guard the royal palace.

2 Kings 11:16

11:16 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. ²  There she was executed.

2 Kings 11:20

11:20 All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.

2 Kings 25:9

25:9 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. ³ 

2 Kings 25:18

25:18 The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

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¹ 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.

² tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went the way of the entrance of the horses [into] the house of the king.”

³ tn Heb “and every large house he burned down with fire.”