Discovery Box2 Kings 11:1 
Context11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. 1
2 Kings 11:3-4
Context11:3 He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple 2 for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned 3 the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians 4 and the royal bodyguard. 5 He met with them 6 in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement 7 with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.
2 Kings 11:21
Context11:21 (12:1) 8 Jehoash 9 was seven years old when he began to reign.
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 he was with her [in] the house of the
3 tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”
4 sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.
5 tn Heb “the runners.”
6 tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”
7 tn Or “covenant.”
8 sn Beginning with 11:21, the verse numbers through 12:21 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 11:21 ET = 12:1 HT, 12:1 ET = 12:2 HT, 12:2 ET = 12:3 HT, etc., through 12:21 ET = 12:22 HT. With 13:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
