2 Kings 9:27

_BUT WHEN AHAZIAH THE KING OF JUDAH SAW THIS, HE FLED BY THE WAY OF THE GARDEN HOUSE. AND JEHU FOLLOWED AFTER HIM, AND SAID, SMITE HIM ALSO IN THE CHARIOT. AND THEY DID SO AT THE GOING UP TO GUR, WHICH IS BY IBLEAM. AND HE FLED TO MEGIDDO, AND DIED THERE._ AHAZIAH - was grand-nephew to king Joram, and great-grandson to king Ahab. JEHU ... SAID, SMITE HIM ALSO IN THE CHARIOT. It is remarkable that the vengeance threatened was brought on the house of Ahab at the very time that the king of Judah was on a visit to Joram, that he might partake of the punishment, as being a descendant of the wicked Ahab. It was by an unexpected concurrence of circumstances that this took place. Joram having been wounded in fighting against the Syrians at Ramah, it was providentially ordered that he should go to Jezreel rather than to Samaria, to be healed of his wounds. Thither his relative Ahaziah had come t...

16-29 Jehu was a man of eager spirit. The wisdom of God is seen in the choice of those employed in his work. But it is not for any man's reputation to be known by his fury. He that has rule over his own spirit, is better than the mighty. Joram met Jehu in the portion of Naboth. The circumstances of events are sometimes ordered by Divine Providence to make the punishment answer to the sin, as face answers to face in a glass. The way of sin can never be the way of peace, Isaiah 57:21. What peace can sinners have with God? No peace so long as sin is persisted in; but when it is repented of and forsaken, there is peace. Joram died as a criminal, under the sentence of the law. Ahaziah was joined with the house of Ahab. He was one of them; he had made himself so by sin. It is dangerous to join evil-doers; we shall be entangled in guilt and misery by it....

Verse 27. _FLED BY THE WAY OF THE GARDEN_] The account of the death of Ahaziah, as given in 2 Chronicles 22:8, is very different from that given here: _When Jehu was executing judgment upon the house_ _of Ahab-he sought Ahaziah; and they caught him, (for he was hid in_ _Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu; and when they had slain him,_ _they buried him_. "The current of the story at large is this," says Dr. Lightfoot: "Jehu slayeth Joram in the _field of Jezreel_, as Ahaziah and Joram were together; Ahaziah, seeing this, flees, and gets into Samaria, and hides himself there. Jehu marcheth to Jezreel, and makes Jezebel dogs' meat: from thence he sends to Samaria for the heads of Ahab's children and posterity: which are brought him by night, and showed to the people in the morning. Then he marcheth to Samaria, and by the way slayeth _forty-two_ of...

BY THE WAY OF THE GARDEN-HOUSE - Or “by the way of Beth-Gan,” which has been conjectured to be another name for En-Gannim, “the spring of the gardens.” Both are considered identical with Ginaea, the modern Jenin, which lies due south of Jezreeh The road from Jezreel (Zerin) to Jenin passes at first along the plain of Esdraelon, but after a while begins to rise over the Samaritan hills. Here probably was “the ascent of Gur, by Ibleam,” which may have occupied the site of the modern Jelama. Whether the soldiers attacked him there or not is uncertain. The words, “And they did so,” are not in the original. MEGIDDO - On its situation, see Joshua 12:21 note; and on the possible reconcilement of this passage with 2 Chronicles 22:9, s

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 9:1 THE ANOINTING OF JEHU. His MURDER OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH. THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL. 2 KINGS 9:1 Elisha is still the primary figure in the historical drama; but at this point his personality merges in the general account of the kingdom of Israel, which it is one of the objects of the writer to trace from beginning to end. Elisha here performs his last public act, being commissioned, and carrying out his commission, to transfer the kingdom of Israel from the unworthy dynasty of Omri, which on account of its p

BUT WHEN AHAZIAH THE KING OF JUDAH SAW THIS,.... That Joram was slain: HE FLED BY THE WAY OF THE GARDEN HOUSE, which perhaps stood upon the spot where Naboth's vineyard was, turned into a garden by Ahab: AND JEHU FOLLOWED AFTER HIM; as far as Samaria, where he was hid, 2 Chronicles 22:9, AND SAID, SMITE HIM ALSO IN THE CHARIOT; this order he gave to his soldiers, to do to him as he had done to Joram: and they did so, AT THE GOING UP TO GUR, WHICH IS BY IBLEAM; a city in the tribe of Manasseh, Joshua 17:11, AND HE FLED TO MEGIDDO; after he was wounded; another city in the same tribe, Joshua 17:11, and d

III. THE PERIOD OF DECLENSION AND APOSTASY 1. Jehu, King of Israel and His Deeds CHAPTER 9:11-37 _ 1. Jehu is king (2 Kings 9:11)_ 2. Jehoram, King of Israel slain (2 Kings 9:14) 3. Ahaziah slain (2 Chronicles 22:9) 4. Jezebel and her end (2 Kings 9:30) Jehu revealed the secret anointing as King over Israel, and under the blare of the trumpets the army hails him as King. “Jehu is King!” Oh! for that day when our Lord Jesus will be hailed as King to begin His righteous judgment over the earth. The Assyrian monuments bear interesting testimony to a good deal of the histo

2 KINGS 9:1 TO 2 KINGS 10:31. THE REVOLUTION AND OVERTHROW OF THE BAAL WORSHIP. This spirited narrative is probably derived from the same source as 1 Kings 20, 22; and, if we strike out the short Deuteronomic portion (2 Kings 9:7), we cannot fail to notice the detachment of the writer, who neither condemns nor approves, but merely relates the tragedy. Hosea (Hosea 1:4), a little more than a century later, evidently condemns the whole transaction, and traces the fall of Jehu's house to the blood of Jezreel. This is in strong contrast with the Deuteronomic passage,...

AND THEY DID SO. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6) thus: "and they smote him"....

Death of Ahaziah king of Judah (2 Chronicles 22:7-9) 27. by _the way of the garden house_ The events took place close to the royal grounds, for Naboth's vineyard lay in the neighbourhood. The garden house may have been some building at the extremity of the domain by which flight from the scene of destruction appeared easy to Ahaziah. The LXX. however treats it as a proper name, writing Βαιθγάν. This has been supposed to be the same as En-gannim = -the well of the gardens" which is identified with the modern _Jenin_. This place lies south from Jezreel on the road to Samaria, and would be on the shortest route by which Ahaziah could make his way to Jerusalem. _And Jehu followed after him_ i.e. In the person of his partizans and followers, to whom he gave the order -Smite him also". Jehu wished to get into Jezreel as soon as possible, and left the fate