2 Chronicles 24:7 - Exposition

The sons of Athaliah . This verse's testimony against Athaliah's sons explains 2 Chronicles 21:17 , and is explained and corroborated by it. That wicked woman ; Hebrew, הַמִּרְשַׁעַת ; fem. noun, derivative of רַשַׁע ; meaning strictly in the abstract, "the wickedness," equal to that incarnation of wickedness. All the dedicated things ; i.e. the holy vessels, treasure, and holy furniture of the house of the Lord, had they desecrated, and robbed' them thence to squander them on their various Baals ( 2 Chronicles 17:3 ).