II Kings Chapter 11

Exposé | Moral

Desperate Times G-d Has His Plans

Hope is never lost for His people. His devout ones.

You may not notice it. But G-d’s hands are always upon you.

Melachim | Kings

“King Joash”

When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son had died, she arose and exterminated all the offspring of the royal family.
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But Jehosheba, King Jehoram’s daughter, Ahaziah’s sister, took Joash son of Ahaziah and smuggled him from the midst of the king’s sons who were being killed, [and put] him and his nursemaid in the bed chamber; they hid him from Athaliah, so he was not put to death.
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Then [Jehoiada] brought out the king’s son and placed the crown and the Divine testimony upon him; they declared him king and anointed him, and they clapped [their] hands and said “Long live the king.!”
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Jehoiada then sealed the covenant between Hashem and the king and the people, to be a people of Hashem; and between the king and the people.
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All the people of the land came to the Temple of Baal and tore it down; they smashed its altars and images and mattan, priest of the Baal, they slew in front of the altars. [Jehoiada] the Kohen then established administrators over the Temple of Hashem.
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The entire people of the land rejoiced and the city was tranquil, for they had put Athaliah to death by the sword of the king’s palace.
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Daily Holy Bible Reading

1 And Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, and she rose and destroyed all those of royal descent.
2 And Jehosheba, King Joram’s daughter, Ahaziah’s sister, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the slain children of the king, [and she concealed] him and his nurse in the bed-chamber; and they concealed him from Athaliah, and he was not slain.
3 And he was hiding with her in the house of the Lord for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
4 And in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent and took the officers of the hundreds of the mighty warriors and of the couriers, and he brought them to him to the house of the Lord; and he enacted a covenant with them, and adjured them in the house of the Lord, and showed them the king’s son.
5 And he commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do; a third of you, of those who come on the Sabbath and the keepers of the watch of the king’s palace.
6 And a third in the Sur gate, and a third in the gate behind which was the gate of the couriers; and you shall keep the watch of the palace without taking your mind off it.
7 And two thirds of you, all those who leave on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord, to [guard] the king.
8 And you shall surround the king, each one with his weapons in his hand; and the one who comes within the ranks shall be put to death; and you shall be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.
9 And the officers of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and each one took his men, those coming in on the Sabbath and those leaving on the Sabbath, and they came to Jehoiada the priest.
10 And the priest gave the officers of the hundreds, the spears and the shields that had belonged to King David, which were in the house of the Lord.
11 And the couriers stood, each one with his weapons in his hand, from the right end of the house to the left end of the house, before the altar and the house, surrounding the king.
12 And he brought out the king’s son, and placed the crown and the testimony, and they made him king and anointed him: and they clapped their hands and said, “Long live the king!”
13 Now Athaliah heard the sound of the running people; and she came to the people, to the house of the Lord.
14 And she saw, and behold, the king was standing on his stand as the custom was, and the officers and the trumpets before the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and sounding the trumpets; and Athaliah rent her garments and called out, “Revolt! Revolt!”
15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the officers of the hundreds, those appointed over the army, and he said to them, “Take her out to within the ranks, and anyone who comes after her, is to be slain by the sword,” for the priest had said, “Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.”
16 And they made a place for her, and she came by way of the horses’ entrance into the king’s palace, and she was executed there.
17 And Jehoiada enacted the covenant between the Lord and between the king and [between] the people, to be the people of the Lord, and between the king and between the people.
18 And all the people of the land came to the temple of the Baal and tore it down, its altars and its images they smashed, and Mattan the priest of the Baal they slew before the altars; and the priest set up appointees over the house of the Lord.
19 And he took the officers of the hundreds and the mighty warriors and the couriers and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, and they came by way of the gate of the couriers to the king’s palace; and he sat on the throne of the kings.
20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city quieted down, and Athaliah they had dispatched by the sword in the royal palace.