1. Athaliah —(See on :- ). She had possessed great influence over her son, who, by her counsels, had ruled in the spirit of the house of Ahab. destroyed all the seed royal —all connected with the royal family who might have urged a claim to the throne, and who had escaped the murderous hands of Jehu ( 2 Chronicles 21:2-4 ; 2 Chronicles 22:1 ; 2 Kings 10:13 ; 2 Kings 10:14 ). This massacre she was incited to perpetrate—partly from a determination not to let David's family outlive hers; partly as a measure of self-defense to secure herself against the violence of Jehu, who was bent on destroying the whole of Ahab's posterity to which she belonged ( 2 Kings 10:14- : ); but chiefly from personal ambition to rule, and a desire to establish the worship of Baal. Such was the sad fruit of the unequal alliance between the son of the pious Jehoshaphat and a daughter of the idolatrous and wicked house of Ahab. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"
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