Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: June 20th Morning “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.” 2 Kings 11:1-4 , 2 Kings 11:10-18 , 2 Kings 11:20 2 Kings 11:1 Like a true descendant of Ahab, she stopped at nothing which could promote her own ambition. Well might she be called “Athaliah that wicked woman.” The seed of David was almost destroyed by her, but the Lord interposed, for the sceptre could not depart from Judah until Messiah came. The covenant promise to David was bound up in a single life, but it did not fail. 2 Kings 11:2 , 2 Kings 11:3 Athaliah was not likely to go to the Lord’s house to find the child, for she seldom troubled that sacred place. David had lovingly cared for God’s house, and now the Lord shelters the hope of his servant’s race in the chambers of the temple. 2 Kings 11:4 These he appointed to act as a body-guard to the king, when he should be brought forth publicly to be crowned. Matthew Henry remarks that Jehoiada w...