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Athaliah and Hezekiah
How Athaliah and Hezekiah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Athaliah was an ancestor of Hezekiah.
Athaliah destroyed the royal seed of Judah, but her grandson Joash was hidden from her. Hezekiah descended from that surviving child through Amaziah, Azariah, Jotham and Ahaz.
Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead
2 Kings 11:1, King James Version
took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain
2 Kings 11:2, King James Version
Ahaziah his son, Joash his son
1 Chronicles 3:11, King James Version
Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son
1 Chronicles 3:12, King James Version
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son
1 Chronicles 3:13, King James Version
Where they cross: 2 Kings 11:1-2
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
2 Kings 11:1-2
1And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
1 Chronicles 3:11
11Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
1 Chronicles 3:12
12Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
1 Chronicles 3:13
13Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
King James Version