Jehoshabeath. — Kings, “Jehosheba.” (Comp. “Elisheba,” Exodus 6:23; and Ἐλισάβετ (LXX.), Luke 1:7.)
The daughter of the king. — Kings adds “Joram,” and “sister of Ahaziah.”
That were slain. — That were to be put to death.
In a bedchamber. — Literally, in the chamber of beds, i.e., where the bedding was kept. (See Note on 2 Kings 11:2.)
The wife of Jehoiada the priest. — So Josephus. Thenius questions the fact, on the supposed grounds — (1) that the high priest did not live in the Temple; but the passage he alleges (Nehemiah 3:20-21) does not prove this for Jehoiada; and (2) that the chronicler contradicts himself in asserting that the priest’s wife also lived within the sacred precinct; but again his reference (2 Chronicles 8:11) is irrelevant. Ewald calls the statement in question “genuinely historical;” and there is not the smallest reason to doubt it.