John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 11:1

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when Athaiah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, etc.] Who was the daughter of Ahab, and granddaughter of Omri (<120818>2 Kings 8:18,26), she arose, and destroyed all the seed royal; that were left, for many had been slain already; the sons of Jehoshaphat, the brothers of Joram, were slain by him, (<142104>2 Chronicles 21:4) and all Joram’s sons, excepting Ahaziah, were slain by the Arabians, (<142201>2 Chronicles 22:1), and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah were slain by Jehu, (<121108>2 Kings 11:8), these therefore seem to be the children of Ahaziah, the grandchildren of this brutish woman, whom she massacred out of her ambition of rule and government, which perhaps she was intrusted with while her son went to visit Joram king of Israel; other reasons are by some assigned, but this seems to be the chief. For the same reason Laodice, who had six sons by Ariarathes king of the Cappadocians, poisoned five of them; the youngest escaping her hands, was murdered by the people f121, as this woman also was.

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