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Complete Jewish Bible

2 Kings 11:3

He remained hidden with his nurse in the house of Adonai for six years; during this time ‘Atalyah ruled the land.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Athaliah;   Church;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Joash;   Orphan;   Temple;   Usurpation;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fatherless;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Athaliah;   Joash or Jehoash;   King, Kings;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Fulfillment;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehosheba;   King;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Athaliah;   Canaan, History and Religion of;   History;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Queen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Athaliah;   Chronicles, I;   Government;   Jehoash;   Jerusalem;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Athaliah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Athaliah;   Joash;   Queen;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Athaliah;   Joel (2);   Priest, High;   Queen Mother;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Childbirth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Joash was in hiding with her in the Lord’s temple six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
Hebrew Names Version
He was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. `Atalyah reigned over the land.
King James Version
And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
English Standard Version
And he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the Lord , while Athaliah reigned over the land.
New Century Version
He hid with her in the Temple of the Lord for six years. During that time Athaliah ruled the land.
New English Translation
He hid out with his nurse in the Lord 's temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
Amplified Bible
Joash was hidden with his nurse in the house (temple) of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
New American Standard Bible
So he was kept hidden with her in the house of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord sixe yeere: and Athaliah did reigne ouer the land.
Legacy Standard Bible
So he was hidden away with her in the house of Yahweh six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.
Contemporary English Version
Joash hid in the temple with Jehosheba for six years while Athaliah ruled as queen of Judah.
Darby Translation
And he was with her hid in the house of Jehovah six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joash and Jehosheba hid in the Lord 's Temple. Joash hid there for six years. During that time Athaliah ruled over the land of Judah.
George Lamsa Translation
And he was hidden with her in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Good News Translation
For six years Jehosheba took care of the boy and kept him hidden in the Temple, while Athaliah ruled as queen.
Lexham English Bible
He remained with her in the temple of Yahweh, hidden for six years while Athaliah was reigning over the land.
Literal Translation
And he was with her in the house of Jehovah, hiding himself six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he was hyd with her in the house of the LORDE sixe yeares. But Athalia was quene in the londe.
American Standard Version
And he was with her hid in the house of Jehovah six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Bible in Basic English
And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he was with her hyd in the house of the Lord sixe yeres: And Athalia dyd raigne ouer the lande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years; and Athaliah reigned over the land.
King James Version (1611)
And he was with her hidde in the House of the Lord, sixe yeeres: and Athaliah did reigne ouer the land.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he remained with her hid in the house of the Lord six years: and Gotholia reigned over the land.
English Revised Version
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
Berean Standard Bible
And Joash remained hidden with his nurse in the house of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he was with hir in the hows of the Lord priueli sixe yeer. Forsothe Athalia regnede on the lond sixe yeer.
Young's Literal Translation
and he is with her, in the house of Jehovah, hiding himself, six years, and Athaliah is reigning over the land.
Update Bible Version
And he was hid with her in the house of Yahweh six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
World English Bible
He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.
New King James Version
So he was hidden with her in the house of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
New Living Translation
Joash remained hidden in the Temple of the Lord for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.
New Life Bible
Joash was hid with his nurse in the house of the Lord six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
New Revised Standard
he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the Lord , while Athaliah reigned over the land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he was with her, in the house of Yahweh, hiding himself, six years, - while, Athaliah, was reigning over the land.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the land.
Revised Standard Version
and he remained with her six years, hid in the house of the LORD, while Athali'ah reigned over the land.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he was hidden with her in the house of the LORD six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

Contextual Overview

1 When ‘Atalyah the mother of Achazyah saw that her son was dead, she set about destroying the entire royal family. 2 But Y'hosheva the daughter of King Yoram, sister of Achazyah, took Yo'ash the son of Achazyah and stole him away from among the princes who were being slaughtered. She took him and his nurse, sequestered them in a bedroom, and hid them from ‘Atalyah, so that he was not killed. 3 He remained hidden with his nurse in the house of Adonai for six years; during this time ‘Atalyah ruled the land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3120-3126, bc 884-878

And Athaliah: 2 Chronicles 22:12, Psalms 12:8, Malachi 3:15

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 12:1 - the seventh Nehemiah 6:10 - the house

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city with a tower that has its top reaching up into heaven, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."
Genesis 11:6
Adonai said, "Look, the people are united, they all have a single language, and see what they're starting to do! At this rate, nothing they set out to accomplish will be impossible for them!
Genesis 11:7
Come, let's go down and confuse their language, so that they won't understand each other's speech."
Genesis 11:18
Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Re‘u.
Genesis 14:10
Now the Siddim Valley was full of clay pits; and when the kings of S'dom and ‘Amora fled, some fell into them; while the rest fled to the hills.
Exodus 1:14
making their lives bitter with hard labor — digging clay, making bricks, all kinds of field work; and in all this toil they were shown no mercy.
Exodus 2:3
When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket, coated it with clay and tar, put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the riverbank.
2 Samuel 12:31
In addition, he expelled the people who were in it and set them to work with saws, iron harrows and iron axes, or had them cross over to work in the brick factory. This is what he did to all the cities of the people of ‘Amon. Then David and all the people returned to Yerushalayim.
Psalms 64:5
in order to shoot from cover at the innocent, shooting suddenly and fearing nothing.
Proverbs 1:11
Suppose they say, "Come with us: we'll ambush somebody and kill him, we'll waylay some harmless soul, just for fun;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years,.... In the temple; not in the holy of holies, as Jarchi, but in a chamber of the priests and Levites, of which there were several in a temple, as Kimchi, and others; and the husband of Jehosheba, being high priest, had one of them for his own use; and here the child was hid six years, so that he was but a year old when he was first taken and preserved, for he was made king when seven years of age, 2 Kings 11:21,

and Athaliah did reign over the land; the only instance we hear of a woman reigning in Israel, and this was not by right, but by usurpation; and so, according to the Jewish canons, a woman might not rule; which thus runs a, they do not set a woman in the kingdom, as it is said, Deuteronomy 17:15, "a king over them", not a queen; and so, in all places of power and authority in Israel, they put in them none but a man.

a Maimon. Hilchot Melachim, c. 1. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Athaliah did reign over the land - In these words the writer dismisses the entire reign of Athaliah, whereof he scorns to speak. We gather incidentally from 2 Kings 12:5-12, compared with 2 Chronicles 24:7, that Athaliah used her power to establish the exclusive worship of BaaI through the kingdom of Judah, and to crush that of Yahweh. She stopped the temple service, gave over the sacred vessels of the sanctuary to the use of the Baal priests, and employed the temple itself as a quarry from which materials might be taken for the construction of a great temple to Baal, which rose in the immediate neighborhood.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 11:3. He was - hid in the house of the Lord — This might be readily done, because none had access to the temple but the priests; and the high priest himself was the chief manager of this business.


 
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