2 Kings 11:4
And in the seventh year Jodae sent and took the captains of hundreds of the + 11:4 Heb. guards.Chorri and of the + 11:4 Heb. runners.Rhasim, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant of the Lord with them, and adjured them, and Jodae shewed them the king's son.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
3And he remained with her hid in the house of the Lord six years: and Gotholia reigned over the land.
5And charged them, saying, This is the + 11:5 Gr. word.thing which ye shall do.
Cross References
Genesis 50:25And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.
2 Samuel 8:18and Banæas son of Jodaë was councillor, and the Chelethite and the Phelethite, and the sons of David, were princes of the court.
1 Kings 18:10As the Lord thy God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom, whither my lord has not sent to seek thee; and if they said, He is not here, then has he set fire to the kingdom and its territories, because he has not found thee.
2 Kings 11:17And Jodae made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord's people; also between the king and the people.
2 Kings 12:7And it came to pass in the twenty-third year of king Joas the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 11:2-4
The Death of Athaliah. ( b. c. 878.) 1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. 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 which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. 3 And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land. God had… Read the whole commentary →