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2 Kings 11:3

And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the land.

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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.
Complete Jewish Bible
He remained hidden with his nurse in the house of Adonai for six years; during this time ‘Atalyah ruled the land.
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.
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 Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed. 2 But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took Joas, the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse: and hid him from the face of Athalia; so that he was not slain. 3 And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over 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
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Genesis 11:6
And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.
Genesis 11:7
Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Genesis 11:18
Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
Genesis 14:10
Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown there: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.
Exodus 2:3
And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river’s brink,
2 Samuel 12:31
And bringing forth the people thereof he sawed them, and drove over them chariots armed with iron: and divided them with knives, and made them pass through brickkilns: so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon: and David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
(63-6) They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:11
If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

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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