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2 Chronicles 23:14 Explained in Context
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Verse 14. 14Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.
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Quick Meaning
Orders her removed through the ranks and forbids killing inside the house.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 23:12–23:15
Orders her removed through the ranks and forbids killing inside the house. Read 2 Chronicles 23:14 within 23:12–23:15. The complete unit records: Athaliah hears celebration, sees Joash, cries treason, and is led outside the temple grounds before being killed at the horse gate.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The narrative protects sacred space from bloodshed while ending Athaliah's rule by force. In this exact position, the line beginning “Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over…” orders her removed through the ranks and forbids killing inside the house.
Follow the Context
- Athaliah hears celebration, sees Joash, cries treason, and is led outside the temple grounds before being killed at the horse gate.
- The narrative protects sacred space from bloodshed while ending Athaliah's rule by force.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over…”
In plain language: Orders her removed through the ranks and forbids killing inside the house.
The line beginning “Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over…” orders her removed through the ranks and forbids killing inside the house.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Her prior crimes do not make execution spectacle admirable, erase due-process questions, or justify violence against women or political rivals.
What Remains True
Orders her removed through the ranks and forbids killing inside the house. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse orders her removed through the ranks and forbids killing inside the house, keep it inside 23:12–23:15, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 23:14 orders her removed through the ranks and forbids killing inside the house. Use 23:12–23:15, paraphrase “Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 23:12–23:15 — Athaliah is removed from the temple and killedSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 23:14 remains within this thought-unit limit: Kings and Chronicles differ in personnel and staging; both are interested accounts, and Athaliah's own case is voiced only in one cry.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 23:12–23:15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 23:12–23:15
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 23:12–23:15, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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