4 Kings 11:1
And Athalia the mother of Ochozias seeing that her son was dead, arose, and slew all the royal seed.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Athalia vero mater Ochoziæ, videns mortuum filium suum, surrexit, et interfecit omne semen regium.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ Γοθολία ἡ μήτηρ Ὀχοζείου εἶδεν ὅτι ἀπέθανεν ὁ υἱὸς αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀπώλεσεν πᾶν τὸ σπέρμα τῆς βασιλείας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַֽעֲתַלְיָה֙ אֵ֣ם אֲחַזְיָ֔הוּ וראתה כִּ֣י מֵ֣ת בְּנָ֑הּ וַתָּ֨קָם֙ וַתְּאַבֵּ֔ד אֵ֖ת כָּל זֶ֥רַע הַמַּמְלָכָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Seed. What cruelties are occasioned by ambition! (Worthington)
This is one of the most extraordinary proofs recorded in history. Agrippina was but a faint copy of the unnatural Athalia, (Calmet) who knew that she was destined for slaughter, if she should fall into the hands of Jehu. (Menochius)
Her impiety might also prompt her to destroy all the posterity of David, that she might introduce the worship of idols more easily. (Theodoret)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.