2 Chronicles 22:7

_AND THE DESTRUCTION OF AHAZIAH WAS OF GOD BY COMING TO JORAM: FOR WHEN HE WAS COME, HE WENT OUT WITH JEHORAM AGAINST JEHU THE SON OF NIMSHI, WHOM THE LORD HAD ANOINTED TO CUT OFF THE HOUSE OF AHAB._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

THE DESTRUCTION OF AHAZIAH WAS OF GOD - i. e. his untimely end was a judgment upon him for his idolatry....

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

AND THE DESTRUCTION OF AHAZIAH WAS OF GOD BY COMING TO JORAM,.... Of his appointing; it was according to his purpose and decree, and was brought about by his overruling Providence, ordering the occasion and manner of it very justly for his sins: FOR WHEN HE WAS COME, HE WENT OUT WITH JEHORAM AGAINST JEHU THE SON OF NIMSHI; see 2 Kings 9:21, WHOM THE LORD HAD ANOINTED TO CUT OFF THE HOUSE OF AHAB; raised up to be king of Israel for that purpose, 2 Kings 9:6, the Targum is, "whom Elijah anointed by the command of the Word of the Lord;'' but it was not Elijah, but a prophet by the order of Elisha, that anointed him, 2 Kings 9:1, and this being done by direction of the L

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

DESTRUCTION. Compare 2 Kings 9:21. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. WHOM THE LORD HAD ANOINTED. Compare 2Ki 9:6, 2 Kings 9:7....

_destruction_ Rather, RUIN, or DOWNFALL, LXX., καταστροφή. Ahaziah's brethren fell with him (2 Chronicles 22:8). _by coming to Joram_ R.V. IN THAT HE WENT UNTO JORAM. _had anointed_ Cp. 2 Kings 9:1-10....

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)....