2 Chronicles 22:5

_HE WALKED ALSO AFTER THEIR COUNSEL, AND WENT WITH JEHORAM THE SON OF AHAB KING OF ISRAEL TO WAR AGAINST HAZAEL KING OF SYRIA AT RAMOTH-GILEAD: AND THE SYRIANS SMOTE JORAM._ Went ... to war against Hazael king of Syria. It may be mentioned as a very minute and therefore important confirmation of this part of the sacred history, that the names of Jehu and Hazael his contemporary have both been found on Assyrian sculptures; and there is also a notice of Ithbaal, king of Sidon, who was the father of Jezebel....

Verse 2 Chronicles 22:5. _WENT WITH JEHORAM_] See on 2 Kings 8:28....

EXPOSITION This chapter comprises the accession, brief reign, and death of Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 22:1) and the following murders and usurpation of Athaliah during six years (2 Chronicles 22:10). The parallel of the former section is to be found in 2 Kings 8:24-12; 2Ki 9:14-16, 2 Kings 9:21-12; and of the latter, 2 Kings 11:1. 2 CHRONICLES 22:1 This verse does not so much purport

Ver. 5,6. HE WALKED ALSO AFTER THEIR COUNSEL,.... Did as they advised him, as in matters of religion, so in political things, of which there is an instance in this and the next verse; of which 2 Kings 8:28. 2 Kings 8:29....

CHAPTER 22 AHAZIAH AND ATHALIAH _ 1. Ahaziah and his evil reign (2 Chronicles 22:1)_ 2. His alliance with Ahab's son (2 Chronicles 22:5) 3. At Jezreel (2 Chronicles 22:6) 4. Jehu's judgment and Ahaziah's end (2 Chronicles 22:8) 5. Athaliah (2 Chronicles 22:10) When the Philistines and Arabians invaded Judah they carried away the treasures of Jehoram, and slew his sons. Only Jehoahaz the youngest son was left ...

THE REIGN OF AHAZIAH. Taken, in part, from 2 Kings 8:24, the notes on which see. 2 Chronicles 22:2. forty and two: this should be twenty and two (see 1 Kings 8:26). 2 Chronicles 22:7. The contradiction between this account and that of 2 Kings 9:27 ff. is sufficiently striking to suggest that the Chronicler utilised an entirely different source; it is not improbable that more than one account of the occurrence existed, and that the Chronicler, for some reason of his own, followed the one different from that in

WITH JEHORAM. Compare 2 Kings 8:28, &c. JORAM. Another spelling of Jehoram. See note on 1 Chronicles 25:11....

6 (2 Kings 8:28-29). The Alliance with Jehoram of Israel 5. _smote Joram_ R.V. WOUNDED JORAM (as 2 Kin.)....

7. THE REIGN OF AHAZIAH (2 Chronicles 22:1-9) TEXT 2 Chronicles 22:1. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead; for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 2. Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. 3. He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly. 4. And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction. 5. He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the

REIGN OF AHAZIAH This chapter reproduces with some differences 2 Kings 8:24 and 2 Kings 11:1 (the intervening Chapter s being omitted because they relate exclusively to Israel)....