ATHALIAH SEIZES THE GOVERNMENT (2 Chronicles 22:10-12).
(Comp. 2 Kings 11:1-3.)
(10) But when Athaliah. — See 2 Kings 11:1, with which this verse nearly coincides.
Destroyed. — So Kings and some Hebrew MSS., and all the versions. Hebrew text, she spake, a mistake of some scribe.
All the seed royal. — Even after the massacres described in 2 Chronicles 22:1; 2 Chronicles 22:8, there would doubtless be left a number of persons more or less nearly connected with the royal family, besides the immediate offspring of Ahaziah, who are, in the first instance, intended by this phrase.