2 Kings 11:20

And all the people of the land rejoice, and the city [is] quiet, and they have put Athaliah to death by the sword in the house of the king;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house.

In Context

19and takes the heads of the hundreds, and the executioners, and the runners, and all the people of the land, and they bring down the king from the house of YHWH, and come by the way of the gate of the runners, to the house of the king, and he sits on the throne of the kings.

21Jehoash is a son of seven years in his reigning.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:6whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.

2 Chronicles 23:21And all the people of the land rejoice, and the city has been quiet, and they have put Athaliah to death by the sword.

Proverbs 29:2In the multiplying of the righteous the people rejoice, || And in the ruling of the wicked the people sigh.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 11:18-21

17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord 's people; between the king also and the people. 18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord . 19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land;… Read the whole commentary →

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