1-3 Jehoash, being saved by Jehosheba his aunt from Athaliah's massacre of the seed royal, is hid six years in the house of God 13-16 Jehoiada, giving order to the captains, in the seventh year anoints him king 17-21 Jehoiada restores the worship of God

A.M. 3120 B.c.
Athaliah 2Ch 22:10 24:7

the mother 2Ki 8:26 9:27

and destroyed
A similar history is related by Mr. Bruce, as having occurred in Abyssinia. Judith `surprised the rock Damo, and slew the whole of the princes, to the number, it is said, of about 400;' while the infant king, Del Naad, was conveyed for safety to a loyal province, and afterwards restored. Mt 2:13,16 21:38,39

seed royal [heb] seed of the kingdom 2Ki 25:25 Jer 41:1

2 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.

Jehosheba 2Ch 22:11

Jehoshabeath
Joram 2Ki 8:16

Jehoram
Joash 2Ki 12:1,2

Jehoash
they hid him 2Ki 8:19 Pr 21:30 Isa 7:6,7 37:35 65:8,9 Jer 33:17,21,26

in the bed-chamber
Bachadar hammittoh, `in a chamber of beds;' which Sir J. Chardin thinks does not mean a room to sleep in, but a chamber used as a {repository for beds}; for, in the East, they sleep upon cotton mattresses, `of which they have several in great houses, against they should have occasion, and a room on purposed for them.' 1Ki 6:5,6,8,10 Jer 35:2 Eze 40:45

3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.

A.M. 3120-3126 B.C. 884-878
And Athaliah 2Ch 22:12 Ps 12:8 Mal 3:15

4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.

A.M. 3126 B.C. 878
the seventh 2Ch 23:1

rulers 2Ki 11:9 1Ch 9:13

the captains Ac 5:24,26

made a covenant 2Ki 11:17 23:3 Jos 24:25 1Sa 18:3 23:18 2Ch 15:12 29:10 34:31,32 Ne 9:38

took an oath Ge 50:25 1Ki 18:10 Ne 5:12 10:29

5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

that enter 1Ch 9:25 23:3-6,32 24:3-6 Lu 1:8,9

the watch 2Ki 11:19 16:18 1Ki 10:5 Jer 26:10 Eze 44:2,3 46:2,3

6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.

the gate of Sur 1Ch 26:13-19 2Ch 23:4,5

that it be not broken down.or, from breaking up.

7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.

parts. or, companies [heb] hands
go forth 2Ki 11:5 2Ch 23:6

8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.

he that cometh 2Ki 11:15 Ex 21:14 1Ki 2:28-31 2Ch 23:7

9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

the captains 2Ki 11:4 1Ch 26:26 2Ch 23:8

10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.

king David's spears Josephus states that, for fear of creating suspicion, they came unarmed, `and Jehoiada having opened the arsenal in the temple which David had prepared, he divided among the centurions, priests, and Levites, the spears (arrows), and quivers, and all other kinds of weapons which he found there.' 1Sa 21:9 2Sa 8:7 1Ch 26:27 2Ch 5:1 23:9,10

11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.

every man 2Ki 11:8,10

corner [heb] shoulder
by the altar Ex 40:6 2Ch 6:12 Eze 8:16 Joe 2:17 Mt 23:35 Lu 11:51

12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.

he brought 2Ki 11:2,4 2Ch 23:11

put the crown 2Sa 1:10 12:30 Es 2:17 6:8 Ps 21:3 89:39 132:18 Mt 27:29 Heb 2:9 Re 19:12

the testimony Ex 25:16 31:18 De 17:18-20 Ps 78:5 Isa 8:16,20

anointed him 2Ki 9:3 1Sa 10:1 16:13 2Sa 2:4,7 5:3 1Ki 1:39 La 4:20 Ac 4:27 2Co 1:21 Heb 1:9

and they clapped `they clapped the hand,' which Mr Harmer thinks was similar to the mode in which Oriental females express their respect for persons of high rank, by gently applying one their hands to their mouth. So Pitts relate, that in some of the towns of Barabary, the leaders of the sacred caravan being received with loud acclamations, `the very women get upon the tops of the houses to view the parade, or fine show, where they keep striking their four fingers on their lips, as fast as they can, making a joyful noise all the while.' Ps 47:1 98:8 Isa 55:12

and said 1Ki 1:34 Ps 72:15-17 Da 3:9 6:21 Mt 21:9

God save the king [heb] Let the king live 1Sa 10:24 2Sa 16:16

13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.

2Ch 23:12-15

14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.

stood The Orientals considered a seat by a pillar or column as particularly honourable.

a pillar 2Ki 23:3 2Ch 34:31

the princes 2Ki 11:10,11 Nu 10:1-10

all the people 1Ki 1:39,40 1Ch 12:40 Pr 29:2 Lu 19:37 Re 19:1-7

Treason 2Ki 11:1,2 9:23 1Ki 18:17,18

15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

captains 2Ki 11:4,9,10 2Ch 23:9,14

have Eze 21:14

followeth 2Ki 11:8

Let Eze 9:7

16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.

by the which 2Ch 23:15

there was she slain Ge 9:6 Jud 1:7 Mt 7:2 Jas 2:13 Re 16:5-7

17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the king also and the people.

made a covenant 2Ki 11:4 De 5:2,3 29:1-15 Jos 24:25 2Ch 15:12-14 29:10 34:31 Ezr 10:3 Ne 5:12,13 9:38 10:28,29 2Co 8:5

between the king 1Sa 10:25 2Sa 5:3 1Ch 11:3 2Ch 23:16 Ro 13:1-6

18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

went 2Ki 9:25-28 10:26 18:4 23:4-6,10,14 2Ch 23:17 34:4,7

brake they 2Ki 18:4 Ex 32:20 De 12:3 2Ch 21:17 Isa 2:18 Zec 13:2

slew Mattan De 13:5,9 1Ki 18:40 Zec 13:2,3

appointed 2Ch 23:18-20

officers [heb] offices

19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

took 2Ki 11:4-11

by the way 2Ki 11:5 2Ch 23:5,19

he sat 1Ki 1:13 1Ch 29:23 Jer 17:25 22:4,30 Mt 19:28 25:31

20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

took 2Ki 11:14 2Ch 23:21 Pr 11:10 29:2

slew Athaliah 2Ki 11:15

21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

2ki 11:4 22:1 2ch 24:1