2 Chronicles 23:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

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  • 2 Kgs 11:20 : 20 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet, for they had killed Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
  • Ps 58:10-11 : 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God who judges in the earth.
  • Prov 11:10 : 10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there is celebration.
  • Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.
  • Rev 19:1-4 : 1 And after these things I heard a great voice of a multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, to the Lord our God: 2 For true and righteous are His judgments: for He has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Hallelujah. And her smoke rose up forever and ever. 4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.

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  • 2 Kgs 11:12-21
    10 verses
    93%

    12 He brought out the king's son, put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony; they made him king and anointed him; and they clapped their hands and said, 'Long live the king!'.

    13 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and the people, she came to the people in the temple of the LORD.

    14 When she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, with the princes and the trumpeters beside him. All the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets, and Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, 'Treason, Treason!'.

    15 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the army, and said to them, 'Take her outside under guard, and kill anyone who follows her with the sword.' For the priest had said, 'Do not let her be slain in the house of the LORD.'.

    16 They seized her, and she went by the way of the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was slain.

    17 Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD, the king, and the people, that they would be the LORD's people; and also between the king and the people.

    18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; they thoroughly broke his altars and images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

    19 He took the commanders over hundreds, the captains, the guard, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the LORD; they came by way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

    20 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet, for they had killed Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

    21 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.

  • 2 Chr 23:10-17
    8 verses
    82%

    10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, around the king.

    11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.

    12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:

    13 And she looked, and behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entrance, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and those who taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

    14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the army, and said to them, Bring her out of the ranges; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Do not slay her in the house of the LORD.

    15 So they laid hands on her; and when she came to the entrance of the Horse Gate by the king's house, they slew her there.

    16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.

    17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

  • 2 Chr 23:20
    80%

    20 And he took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 22:8-12
    5 verses
    75%

    8 And it happened that when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab and found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers who ministered to Ahaziah, he killed them.

    9 And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (for he was hidden in Samaria) and brought him to Jehu, and when they had killed him, they buried him, for they said, 'He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.' So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

    10 But when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal lineage of the house of Judah.

    11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.

    12 And he was hidden with them in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.

  • 2 Kgs 11:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1 When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal descendants.

    2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons who were slain. She hid him and his nurse in the bedroom away from Athaliah, so he was not killed.

    3 He was hidden with her in the house of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.

    4 In the seventh year, Jehoiada sent and brought the commanders of hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath from them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.

  • 2 Chr 22:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, reigned.

    2 Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.

  • 2 Kgs 21:24
    70%

    24 And the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 33:25
    69%

    25 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 10:25
    68%

    25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come out. And they struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

  • 2 Chr 30:25-26
    2 verses
    67%

    25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

    26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 24:7
    67%

    7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

  • 2 Chr 20:27
    67%

    27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go back to Jerusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

  • 2 Kgs 8:26
    66%

    26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:30
    66%

    30 And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.

  • 2 Chr 19:1
    66%

    1 And Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 24:17
    66%

    17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    65%

    5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.

  • 2 Chr 24:23
    65%

    23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the army of Syria came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus.

  • 2 Kgs 12:20-21
    2 verses
    65%

    20 His servants arose, made a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

    21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 15:15
    65%

    15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire; and He was found by them: and the LORD gave them rest all around.

  • 2 Chr 20:30
    65%

    30 Then the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.

  • 1 Kgs 1:40
    65%

    40 And all the people came up after him, and the people played flutes and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth resounded with the sound of them.

  • 2 Kgs 10:11
    65%

    11 So Jehu killed all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolk, and his priests, until he left none remaining.

  • Isa 22:2
    65%

    2 You who are full of commotion, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: your slain men are not killed with the sword, nor dead in battle.