21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
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21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
21 And all the people of the land rejoice, and the city hath been quiet, and Athaliah they have put to death by the sword.
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; and they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
21 So all the people of the land were glad and the town was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death with the sword.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
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Commentary on 2 Chronicles 23 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 23
Six years bloody Athaliah had tyrannised; in this chapter we have her deposed and slain, and Joash, the rightful heir, enthroned. We had the story before nearly as it is here related, 2 Ki. 11:4, etc.
2Ch 23:1-11
We may well imagine the bad posture of affairs in Jerusalem during Athaliah's six years' usurpation, and may wonder that God permitted it and his people bore it so long; but after such a dark and tedious night the returning day in this revolution was the brighter and the more welcome. The continuance of David's seed and throne was what God had sworn by his holiness (Ps. 89:35), and an interruption was no defeasance; the stream of government here runs again in the right channel. The instrument and chief manager of the restoration is Jehoiada, who appears to have been,
2Ch 23:12-21
Here we have,