2 Kings 11 Grandmother Athaliah dead

seekeroftruth

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2 Kings 11:13 When Athaliah heard the noise made by the guards and the people, she went to the people at the temple of the Lord. 14 She looked and there was the king, standing by the pillar, as the custom was. The officers and the trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her robes and called out, “Treason! Treason!”

15 Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops: “Bring her out between the ranks[c] and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the temple of the Lord.” 16 So they seized her as she reached the place where the horses enter the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.

17 Jehoiada then made a covenant between the Lord and the king and people that they would be the Lord’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people. 18 All the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

Then Jehoiada the priest posted guards at the temple of the Lord. 19 He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards and all the people of the land, and together they brought the king down from the temple of the Lord and went into the palace, entering by way of the gate of the guards. The king then took his place on the royal throne. 20 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was calm, because Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the palace.

21 Joash[d] was seven years old when he began to reign.[e]​

c. 2 Kings 11:15 Or out from the precincts
d. 2 Kings 11:21 Hebrew Jehoash, a variant of Joash
e. 2 Kings 11:21 In Hebrew texts this verse (11:21) is numbered 12:1.

Athaliah was Jezebel's daughter. She loved being queen. She loved worshiping Baal. Her grandson, Joash grew up in a furniture storage room for years so that she had control of the throne. I bet she was use to conning everyone. Mattan the priest of Baal is now gone too.... and they razed the temple of Baal.... good. It looks like Jehoiada, the Temple Priest [God's Temple not baal's] is going to assist the kid king.

This is from enduringword.com.

Take her outside under guard, and slay with the sword whoever follows her: This was both righteous and prudent. It was a just sentence against this woman who had murdered so many, and prudent precautions were taken so she could not mount a resistance.

Do not let her be killed in the house of the LORD: As a priest, Jehoiada had a great concern for the sanctity and reputation of the temple. Yet in the place where horses entered the king’s house, and there she was killed.

“Thus Athaliah, the most infamous queen of Judah, died at the hands of her executioners, much as did her mother, Jezebel, queen of Israel.” (Patterson and Austel)​

And all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal, and tore it down: In 2 Kings 10 Jehu supervised the destruction of the temple of Baal in Samaria. Here the temple of Baal in Jerusalem was destroyed, and appropriately destroyed by the people of the land.

They didn’t stop at destroying the building itself; they went on to destroy both the sacred objects dedicated to Baal and to kill Mattan the priest of Baal.

One reason the people resented this worship of Baal in Jerusalem so much was because Athaliah had directed that sacred objects from the temple of the LORD be put into the temple of Baal: For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also presented all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD to the Baals (2 Chronicles 24:7).​

This is from the easy English site.

Athaliah heard the noise. She came to see what the matter was. She saw Joash, who was then the king. He was only a little boy. But he was wearing the royal crown. And he was standing by the temple’s columns (1 Kings 7:15-22). The purpose of those columns was to remind the people about their relationship with God. The names of the columns were Jakin and Boaz. The first name means that God established their nation. And the other name means that God gave strength to their nation. The passage mentions that it became traditional for a new king to stand by one of these columns. Athaliah saw this. And then she knew clearly what had happened. Joash had become king. And her own rule had ended.

Athaliah tore her clothes. In that way, she showed that she was very angry. She tried to persuade people to support her. She said that the priest and the people were guilty of treason. (That is, the crime when someone starts a rebellion against the ruler of a country.) But really, it was Athaliah who was guilty of treason. She had made herself the ruler of Judah and she had murdered the rest of the royal family. And it was Joash who had the right to be Judah’s king.

Athaliah then tried to escape back to the palace. She tried to pass through the lines of soldiers.

Jehoiada ordered the soldiers not to kill her in the temple. He was the chief priest. So he would not allow anything to happen in the temple that might affect its sacred state. In particular, he did not want Athaliah to die there during the happy ceremony to appoint Joash king. So the guards took her out of the temple. They killed her in the area round the palace. They did it near the Horse Gate.

So.... finally.... The horrible baal loving, baby sacrificing, reign of Ahab and Jezebel is over. Grandmom Athaliah was the last to be done in.... I bet she had some horse poop on her face and that beautiful torn robe when she died. Bad Grandmom.

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