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2 Kings 11:2

in 2 Kings 11

But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons that were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;

KJV

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.

This verse in 2 Kings 11

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Daughter of - Joram, sister of Ahaziah - It is not likely that Jehosheba was the daughter of Athaliah; she was sister, we find, to Ahaziah the son of Athaliah, but probably by a different mother. The mother of Jehoash was Zibiah of Beer-sheba; see 2Ki 12:1.

This site's exposition

stole him from among the king’s sons

on 2 Kings 11:2-3

Jehosheba, a daughter of the royal house and by 2 Chronicles 22:11 the wife of Jehoiada the priest, hides the one surviving infant and his nurse inside the temple's own chambers for six years while Athaliah reigns undisturbed over the land. The whole covenant promised to David narrows to a nurse, a closet, and a silence the text keeps for six years running, told in a single verse. Wesley notes the chamber's place among the rooms used only by priests and Levites is what makes the hiding place work.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Bed-chamber - Which was in the house of the Lord. So that it was one of those chambers adjoining to the temple, that were for the uses of the priests and Levites only: which made it more proper for this purpose. Now was the promise made to David bound up in one life.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

While Jehu was extirpating the worship of Baal in Israel, she was establishing it in Judah, as appears, 2 Chron. xxiv. The court and kingdom of Judah had been debauched by their alliance with the house of Ahab, and now one of that house is a curse and a plague to both: sinful friendships speed no better.
But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

What is called, however, the bedchamber in the East is not the kind of apartment that we understand by the name, but a small closet, into which are flung during the day the mattresses and other bedding materials spread on the floors or divans of the sitting-rooms by day.
Jehosheba ... sister of Ahaziah - “Half-sister,” according to Josephus - daughter of Joram, not by Athaliah, but by another wife. She was married to Jehoiada the high priest, and was thus in a position to save and conceal her nephew, Joash, who was only one year old (compare 2Ki 11:3, 2Ki 11:21). In the bedchamber - literally, “in the chamber of mattresses” - probabIy a store-room in the palace in which mattresses were kept.

The words behind it

28 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתִּקַּ֣חand she took

    vatikachH3947966 times

  • יְהוֹשֶׁ֣בַעJehosheba

    yehosheva'H3089

  • בַּת־[the] daughter of

    bat-H1323588 times

  • הַמֶּֽלֶךְ־the king

    hamelekh-H44282525 times

  • י֠וֹרָםJoram

    yoromH314120 times

  • אֲח֨וֹת[the] sister of

    ʾachotH269

  • אֲחַזְיָ֜הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH27437 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • יוֹאָ֣שׁJoash

    yoashH310147 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֗הAhaziah

    ʾachazyahH27437 times

  • וַתִּגְנֹ֤בand she stole

    vatignoH1589

  • אֹתוֹ֙<obj.> him

    ʾotoH85310935 times

  • מִתּ֤וֹךְfrom among

    mitokhH8432418 times

  • בְּנֵֽי־[the] sons of

    benei-H11214930 times

  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙the king

    hamelekhH44282525 times

  • הַמּ֣וּמָתִ֔יםwho were about to be put to death

    hamamotimH4191839 times

  • אֹת֥וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH85310935 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • מֵינִקְתּ֖וֹsuckling-nurse his

    meiniktoH3243

  • בַּחֲדַ֣רin [the] chamber of

    bachadarH231538 times

  • הַמִּטּ֑וֹתthe beds

    hamitotH429629 times

  • וַיַּסְתִּ֧רוּand they hid

    vaiyastiruH5641

  • אֹת֛וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH85310935 times

  • מִפְּנֵ֥יfrom before

    mipeneiH64402123 times

  • עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּAthaliah

    ʾatalyahuH627117 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H38085168 times

  • הוּמָֽת׃he was put to death

    humatH4191839 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 33:17

    For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 2:4

      and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a…

    • Psalms 89:29–37

      I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

    • Luke 1:32–33

      He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

    • 1 Chronicles 17:11–14

      And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 35:2

    “Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 2:55

      Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, half the Manahathites, the Zorites, and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of…

    • 1 Chronicles 9:26

      But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God.

    • 1 Kings 6:5–6

      Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 40:45

    Then the man said to me: “The chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 9:23

      So they and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the house of the LORD—the house called the Tent.

About 2 Kings

The Death of Athaliah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Athaliah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.