THE house of Ahaziah was so miserably weakned by the late destruction of so many of the branches of it, and none of his children being of years sufficient to maintain their right to the Kingdom against such as should go about to usurp it, Athaliah mother of Ahaziah (who probably was left by him to govern the Kingdom in his ab∣sence when he went to help Joram King of Israel in his wars) hearing that her Son was dead, and that many others of the Royal family were slain by Jehu, taking this advantage, forthwith she laid hold on the Princes of the blood, and those of the Royal family that remain∣ed in Judah and slew them, although some of them (as 'tis like) her own Grandchildren; so cruel and bloody are the minds of Idolaters. But by the wonderful Providence of God it hap∣pened that Joash an infant-son of Aha∣ziah escaped her hands; for Jehoshaba the wife of Jehoiada the High Priest got him away, and hid him with his nurse in a private Chamber belonging to the Temple. Athaliah did these strange and unnatural things that she might quietly possess the Royal Throne, and set up the worship of Baal again in the Kingdom. And some conjecture that she had Sons by some other man be∣sides Jehoram whom she desired to pro∣mote to the Crown, perhaps some of those who brake up the house of God and be∣stowed the dedicated things thereof up∣on Baal, as we read 2 Chron. 24.7. For the Sons of Athaliah that wicked woman
The history of the Old Testament methodiz'd according to the order and series of time wherein the several things therein mentioned were transacted ... to which is annex'd a Short history of the Jewish affairs from the end of the Old Testament to the birth of our Saviour : and a map also added of Canaan and the adjacent countries ... / by Samuel Cradock ...
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- The history of the Old Testament methodiz'd according to the order and series of time wherein the several things therein mentioned were transacted ... to which is annex'd a Short history of the Jewish affairs from the end of the Old Testament to the birth of our Saviour : and a map also added of Canaan and the adjacent countries ... / by Samuel Cradock ...
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- Cradock, Samuel, 1621?-1706.
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- 1683.
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"The history of the Old Testament methodiz'd according to the order and series of time wherein the several things therein mentioned were transacted ... to which is annex'd a Short history of the Jewish affairs from the end of the Old Testament to the birth of our Saviour : and a map also added of Canaan and the adjacent countries ... / by Samuel Cradock ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34874.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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had broken up the house of God, and all the dedicated things thereof did they be∣stow upon Baalim. Athaliah having thus usurped the Crown, she reigned about six years.
2 Chron. 22.10, 11, 12.
1 King. 11. from 1, to 4.
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The 7th. that reigned in Judah was A∣THALI∣AH.