2 Kings 11:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Prov 11:10 : 10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there is celebration.
  • Prov 29:2 : 2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.
  • 2 Kgs 11:14 : 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!'.
  • 2 Chr 23:21 : 21 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 Chr 23:20-21
    2 verses
    93%

    20And 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.

    21And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

  • 2 Chr 23:10-17
    8 verses
    81%

    10And 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.

    11Then 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.

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

    13And 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.

    14Then 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.

    15So 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.

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

    17Then 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 Kgs 11:12-19
    8 verses
    81%

    12He 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!'.

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

    14When 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!'.

    15Jehoiada 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.'.

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

    17Jehoiada 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.

    18All 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.

    19He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 11:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

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

    2But 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.

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

    4In 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 22:8-12
    5 verses
    79%

    8And 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.

    9And 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.

    10But 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.

    11But 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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 11:21
    78%

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

  • 2 Chr 22:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1And 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.

    2Ahaziah 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 12:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

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

    21For 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 33:25
    71%

    25But 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
    71%

    25And 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 Kgs 21:24
    71%

    24And 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 Kgs 8:26
    71%

    26Ahaziah 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 Chr 24:7
    69%

    7For 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 Kgs 11:8
    69%

    8You shall encircle the king, each with his weapons in hand, and whoever comes within the ranks, let him be killed. Stay with the king as he comes out and goes in.

  • Judg 6:30
    69%

    30Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has cast down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the grove that was by it.

  • 2 Kgs 10:11
    68%

    11So 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.

  • 2 Chr 24:21-23
    3 verses
    68%

    21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

    22So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

    23And 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 9:27
    68%

    27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu pursued him, and said, Strike him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    68%

    5And 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 Kgs 10:17
    67%

    17And when he came to Samaria, he killed all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to Elijah.

  • 2 Kgs 23:30
    67%

    30And 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 24:25
    67%

    25And when they departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings.

  • 2 Chr 36:1
    67%

    1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 20:30
    67%

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