New Revised Standard Version
Now when Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she set about to destroy all the royal family.

Contemporary English Version
As soon as Athaliah heard that her son King Ahaziah was dead, she decided to kill any relative who could possibly become king. She would have done that,

New American Bible
When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she began to kill off the whole royal family.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.

Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.

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3120 B.C.
Athaliah

2 Chronicles 22:10 For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.

2 Chronicles 24:7 For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.

the mother

2 Kings 8:26 Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.

2 Kings 9:27 But Ochozias, king of Juda, seeing this, fled by the way of the garden house: and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his chariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which is by Jeblaam: and he fled into Mageddo, and died there.

and destroyed

400;' while the infant king, Del Naad, was conveyed for safety to a loyal province, and afterwards restored.

Matthew 2:13,16 And after they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him. . . .

Matthew 21:38,39 But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance. . . .

seed royal [heb] seed of the kingdom

2 Kings 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismael, the son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama, of the seed royal came, and ten men with him, and smote Godolias; so that he died: and also the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him in Maspha.

Jeremiah 41:1 And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismahel the son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama of the royal blood, and the nobles of the king, and ten men with him, came to Godolias the son of Ahicam into Masphath: and they ate bread there together in Masphath.