Discovery Box2 Kings 11:1 
ContextAthaliah 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
Context11:5 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
Context11:16 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
Context11:20 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
Context25:9 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
Context25:18 The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.
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.”
