Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church

2 Kings 11 starts off with a bizarre episode of a grandmother killing all her descendants. We've heard in recent years of mothers killing their children, or children killing their parents, but it's rare that you ever hear of a grandmother killing her grandchildren! What is going on? Athaliah guarantees that she will have no legacy. All she cares about is what happens in her own lifetime. I suppose you could say that she was the original Ayn Rand – "the universe dies with me!" But all this takes place to fulfill the word of the LORD. We have now reached the end of the house of Omri. Jehu has slaughtered everyone belonging to Omri and Ahab in the northern kingdom. And now in chapters 11-12 we hear about how the curse of Ahab affects the house of David. Because Joram, the son of Jehoshaphat, married Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab (and probably of Jezebel as well: while the text does not state the name of her mother, Athaliah was certainly raised in a house where Jezebel was the dominant force). But either way, t