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2 Kings 11:2

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Jehosheba: 2 Chronicles 22:11, Jehoshabeath

they hid him: 2 Kings 8:19; Proverbs 21:30; Isaiah 7:6-7, Isaiah 37:35, Isaiah 65:8-9; Jeremiah 33:17, Jeremiah 33:21, Jeremiah 33:26

in the bedchamber: Bachadar hammittoth:, "in a chamber of beds;" which Sir J. Chardin thinks does not mean a room to sleep in, but a chamber used as a repository for beds; for, in the East, they sleep upon cotton mattresses, "of which they have several in great houses, against they should have occasion, and a room on purpose for them." 1 Kings 6:5-6, 1 Kings 6:8, 1 Kings 6:10; Jeremiah 35:2; Ezekiel 40:45

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