_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._ The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah ... king - or Jehoahaz (2 Chronicl... [ Continue Reading ]
_FORTY AND TWO YEARS OLD WAS AHAZIAH WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED ONE YEAR IN JERUSALEM. HIS MOTHER'S NAME ALSO WAS ATHALIAH THE DAUGHTER OF OMRI._ Forty and two years old - (cf. 2 Kings 8:26.) According to that passage, the commencement of his reign is dated in the 22nd year of his age;... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE ALSO WALKED IN THE WAYS OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB: FOR HIS MOTHER WAS HIS COUNSELLOR TO DO WICKEDLY._ His mother was his counselor.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE HE DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD LIKE THE HOUSE OF AHAB: FOR THEY WERE HIS COUNSELLORS AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER TO HIS DESTRUCTION._ They were his counselors. The facile king surrendered himself wholly to the influence of his mother and her relatives. Athaliah and her son introd... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE RETURNED TO BE HEALED IN JEZREEL BECAUSE OF THE WOUNDS WHICH WERE GIVEN HIM AT RAMAH, WHEN HE FOUGHT WITH HAZAEL KING OF SYRIA. AND AZARIAH THE SON OF JEHORAM KING OF JUDAH WENT DOWN TO SEE JEHORAM THE SON OF AHAB AT JEZREEL, BECAUSE HE WAS SICK._ AZARIAH ... WENT DOWN - i:e., from Ramoth-gi... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND 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: BECAUSE, SAID THEY, HE IS THE SON OF JEHOSHAPHAT, WHO SOUGHT THE LORD WITH ALL HIS HEART. SO THE HOUSE OF AHAZIAH HAD NO POWER TO KEEP STILL THE KINGDOM._... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT WHEN ATHALIAH THE MOTHER OF AHAZIAH SAW THAT HER SON WAS DEAD, SHE AROSE AND DESTROYED ALL THE SEED ROYAL OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH._ Athaliah ... arose and destroyed all the seed royal - (see the notes at 2 Kings 11:1.) Maddened by the massacre of the royal family of Ahab, she resolved that the r... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JEHOSHABEATH, THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING, TOOK JOASH THE SON OF AHAZIAH, AND STOLE HIM FROM AMONG THE KING'S SONS THAT WERE SLAIN, AND PUT HIM AND HIS NURSE IN A BEDCHAMBER. SO JEHOSHABEATH, THE DAUGHTER OF KING JEHORAM, THE WIFE OF JEHOIADA THE PRIEST, (FOR SHE WAS THE SISTER OF AHAZIAH,) HID HI... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WAS WITH THEM HID IN THE HOUSE OF GOD SIX YEARS: AND ATHALIAH REIGNED OVER THE LAND._ He was with them hid in the house of God. Certain persons connected with the priesthood had a right to occupy the buildings in the outer wall, and all within the outer wall was often called the temple. Jeh... [ Continue Reading ]