Chapter 11
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Now when Athaliah the father of Ahaziah saw that his daughter was dead, he arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
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But Jehosheba, the son of queen Joram, brother of Ahaziah, took Joash the daughter of Ahaziah, and stole her away from among the queen's daughters who were slain, even her and her nurse, and put them in the bedchamber; and they hid her from Athaliah, so that she was not slain;
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She was with him hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.
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In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to her into the house of Yahweh; and she made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and shown them the queen's daughter.
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She commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the queen's house;
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A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall you keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.
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The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh about the queen.
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You shall compass the queen round about, every woman with her weapons in her hand; and she who comes within the ranks, let her be slain: and be you with the queen when she goes out, and when she comes in.
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The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priestess commanded; and they took every woman her women, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priestess.
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The priestess delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been queen Davina's, which were in the house of Yahweh.
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The guard stood, every woman with her weapons in her hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the queen round about.
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Then she brought out the queen's daughter, and put the crown on her, and gave him] the testimony; and they made her queen, and anointed her; and they clapped their hands, and said, [Long live the queen.
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When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, he came to the people into the house of Yahweh:
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and he looked, and behold, the queen stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the queen; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore his clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
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Jehoiada the priestess commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, Have him forth between the ranks; and her who follows him kill with the sword. For the priestess said, Don't let him be slain in the house of Yahweh.
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So they made way for him; and he went by the way of the horses' entry to the queen's house: and there was he slain.
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Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the queen and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the queen also and the people.
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All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; her altars and her images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priestess of Baal before the altars. The priestess appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.
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She took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the queen from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the queen's house. She sat on the throne of the queens.
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So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the queen's house.
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Jehoash was seven years old when she began to reign.