They were very evil people bringing all sorts of false worship into Israel. Now we see where the evil influence came from to Jehoram and Ahaziah. “His mother was his counselor … wickedly”: Athaliah and the rest of Ahab’s house who were in the young king’s life taught him wickedness and led him to moral corruption, idolatry, and folly in being induced to war with the Arameans, or Syrians (verses 5-6). The important thing is that he reigned one year.Ģ Chronicles 22:3 “He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.” It really does not matter how old he was. The Scripture (in 2 Kings 8:26), says that he was twenty-two when he began to reign. Omri was the father of Ahab, who was her father. It is highly unlikely that Ahaziah came to the throne twice at different ages. The reading from (2 Kings 8:26), of “twenty-two” should be followed. “Twenty-two”: Some versions read “forty-two” here, a copyist’s error easily made due to the small stoke that differentiates two Hebrew letters. His mother’s name also Athaliah the daughter of Omri.” Now we see that it was the Arabians, who had killed all of the other sons of Jehoram.Ģ Chronicles 22:2 “Forty and two years old Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. Since Ahaziah was the only son left of Jehoram, it would be understandable why the people would make him king. “So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned”: Being declared his successor by the inhabitants of Jerusalem. “For they had slain all the eldest”: Sons of Jehoram the Philistines and Arabians only carried them away captives, but those slew them in cold blood. Cruel and barbarous, as the action ascribed to them shows. 21:16), which band seems to be a band or company of thieves and robbers, as the Septuagint. “For the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp”: That is, of the Philistines (2 Chron. And he made his escape, and that she also escaped is clear from (2 Chron. Who was saved when the rest were taken captive and slain, by his mother Athaliah.
He being the only surviving one of the sons of Jehoram, the same with Jehoahaz (2 Chron. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.” Verses 1-6 (see notes on 2 Kings 8:25-29).Ģ 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.
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