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2Ki 11:3 Strong Concordance And he was with her hid [02244] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068] six [08337] years [08141]. And Athaliah [06271] did reign [04427] over the land [0776].
  King James And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
And Athaliah did reign over the land - In these words the writer dismisses the entire reign of Athaliah, whereof he scorns to speak. We gather incidentally from Kg2 12:5-12, compared with Ch2 24:7, that Athaliah used her power to establish the exclusive worship of BaaI through the kingdom of Judah, and to crush that of Yahweh. She stopped the temple service, gave over the sacred vessels of the sanctuary to the use of the Baal priests, and employed the temple itself as a quarry from which materials might be taken for the construction of a great temple to Baal, which rose in the immediate neighborhood.
 
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7 For the sons [01121] of Athaliah [06271], that wicked [04849] woman, had broken up [06555] the house [01004] of God [0430]; and also all the dedicated things [06944] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068] did they bestow [06213] upon Baalim [01168].
5 Let the priests [03548] take [03947] it to them, every man [0376] of his acquaintance [04378]: and let them repair [02388] the breaches [0919] of the house [01004], wheresoever any breach [0919] shall be found [04672].
6 But it was so, that in the three [07969] [08141] and twentieth [06242] year [08141] of king [04428] Jehoash [03060] the priests [03548] had not repaired [02388] the breaches [0919] of the house [01004].
7 Then king [04428] Jehoash [03060] called [07121] for Jehoiada [03077] the priest [03548], and the other priests [03548], and said [0559] unto them, Why repair [02388] ye not the breaches [0919] of the house [01004]? now therefore receive [03947] no more money [03701] of your acquaintance [04378], but deliver [05414] it for the breaches [0919] of the house [01004].
8 And the priests [03548] consented [0225] to receive [03947] no [01115] more money [03701] of the people [05971], neither [01115] to repair [02388] the breaches [0919] of the house [01004].
9 But Jehoiada [03077] the priest [03548] took [03947] a [0259] chest [0727], and bored [05344] a hole [02356] in the lid [01817] of it, and set [05414] it beside [0681] the altar [04196], on the right side [03225] as one [0376] cometh [0935] into the house [01004] of the LORD [03068]: and the priests [03548] that kept [08104] the door [05592] put [05414] therein all the money [03701] that was brought [0935] into the house [01004] of the LORD [03068].
10 And it was so, when they saw [07200] that there was much [07227] money [03701] in the chest [0727], that the king's [04428] scribe [05608] and the high [01419] priest [03548] came up [05927], and they put up in bags [06696], and told [04487] the money [03701] that was found [04672] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068].
11 And they gave [05414] the money [03701], being told [08505], into the hands [03027] of them that did [06213] the work [04399], that had the oversight [06485] [06485] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068]: and they laid it out [03318] to the carpenters [02796] [06086] and builders [01129], that wrought [06213] upon the house [01004] of the LORD [03068],
12 And to masons [01443], and hewers [02672] of stone [068], and to buy [07069] timber [06086] and hewed [04274] stone [068] to repair [02388] the breaches [0919] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and for all that was laid out [03318] for the house [01004] to repair [02394] it.