Liber Secundus Regum

II Regum, chapter 11, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 11 Vulgate

   1 Athalia vero mater Ochoziae videns mortuum filium suum surrexit et interfecit omne semen regium.
   2 Tollens autem Iosaba filia regis Ioram soror Ochoziae Ioas filium Ochoziae furata est eum de medio filiorum regis, qui interficiebantur, et nutricem eius in cubiculo lectulorum, et absconderunt eum a facie Athaliae, ut non interficeretur.
   3 Eratque cum ea in domo Domini clam sex annis; porro Athalia regnavit super terram.
   4 Anno autem septimo misit Ioiada et assumens centuriones Carum et cursorum introduxit ad se in templum Domini pepigitque cum eis foedus; et adiurans eos in domo Domini ostendit eis filium regis
   5 et praecepit illis dicens: "Hoc est, quod facere debetis: tertia pars vestrum introeat sabbato et observet excubitum domus regis;
   6 tertia autem pars ad portam Sur, et tertia pars sit ad portam, quae est post habitaculum cursorum, et custodietis excubitum domus per vices.
   7 Duae vero partes e vobis omnes egredientes sabbato custodiant excubias domus Domini circum regem.
   8 Et vallabitis eum habentes arma in manibus vestris; si quis autem ingressus fuerit saeptum templi, interficiatur; eritisque cum rege introeunte et egrediente.
   9 Et fecerunt centuriones iuxta omnia, quae praeceperat eis Ioiada sacerdos, et assumentes singuli viros suos, qui ingrediebantur sabbato, cum his, qui egrediebantur sabbato, venerunt ad Ioiada sacerdotem.
   10 Qui dedit centurionibus hastas et peltas regis David, quae erant in domo Domini.
   11 Et steterunt cursores singuli habentes arma in manu sua a parte templi dextera usque ad partem templi sinistram contra altare et aedem circum regem.
   12 Produxitque filium regis et dedit ei diadema et testimonium; feceruntque eum regem et unxerunt et plaudentes manu dixerunt: "Vivat rex!".
   13 Audivit autem Athalia vocem populi et ingressa ad turbas in templum Domini
   14 vidit regem stantem super tribunal iuxta morem et principes et tubas prope eum omnemque populum terrae laetantem et canentem tubis; et scidit vestimenta sua clamavitque: "Coniuratio, coniuratio!".
   15 Praecepit autem Ioiada sacerdos centurionibus, qui erant super exercitum, et ait eis: "Educite eam extra consaepta templi, et, quicumque secutus eam fuerit, feriatur gladio". Dixerat enim sacerdos: "Non occidatur in templo Domini".
   16 Imposueruntque ei manus et impegerunt eam per viam introitus Equorum in palatium, et interfecta est ibi.
   17 Pepigit igitur Ioiada foedus inter Dominum et inter regem et inter populum, ut esset populus Domini, et inter regem et populum.
   18 Ingressusque est omnis populus terrae templum Baal, et destruxerunt illud et aras eius et imagines contriverunt valide; Matthan quoque sacerdotem Baal occiderunt coram altaribus. Et posuit sacerdos custodias in domo Domini
   19 tulitque centuriones et Cares et cursores et omnem populum terrae; deduxeruntque regem de domo Domini. Et venerunt per viam portae Cursorum in palatium, et sedit super thronum regum.
   20 Laetatusque est omnis populus terrae, et civitas conquievit; Athalia autem occisa est gladio in domo regis.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
   2 But 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.
   3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
   4 ¶ And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
   5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
   6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
   7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
   8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
   9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
   10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
   11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
   12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
   13 ¶ And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
   14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
   15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
   16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
   17 ¶ And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.
   18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
   19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
   20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
   21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.