_A.M. 3119. B.C. 885._ Ahaziah's wicked reign, 2 Chronicles 22:1. _Being confederate with Joram, he is slain by Jehu, 2 Chronicles 22:5_. _Athaliah destroys the seed royal, and usurps the kingdom, 2 Chronicles 22:10._ 2 Chronicles 22:1. _The band of men had slain all the eldest_ A cruel sort of men... [ Continue Reading ]
_Forty and two years old was Ahaziah_ It is said (2Ki 8:26) that he was but two and twenty years old when he began to reign; so that, it is probable, an error has been committed here by the copyist or transcriber. For some Greek copies have here twenty-two years old, and it is so in the Syriac and A... [ Continue Reading ]
_He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab_ Called their ways, not because they were the first inventors of them in these parts, but the chief establishers. These ways did not consist merely in the worshipping of God by an image, which was the way of Jeroboam; but in the worship of other gods besid... [ Continue Reading ]
_He went with Jehoram to war against Hazael_ Following the evil example of Jehoshaphat herein; though he would not follow him in what was good. But of this and the following verses, see notes on 2Ki 8:28-29; 2 Kings 9:21; 2 Kings 9:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The destruction of Ahaziah was of God_ By his providence so disposing occasions, and Ahaziah's inclinations, that he should come, at that particular time, to receive his deserved judgment. See on 2 Kings 10:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
_They sought Ahaziah_ Who, though wounded, had made his escape. _They caught him, for he was hid in Samaria_ He fled first to Megiddo, but not thinking himself safe there, he fled to Samaria, where he was taken, and sent thence, by Jehu's order, to Megiddo, where he received the sentence of death. S... [ Continue Reading ]
_But when Athaliah_, &c. This and 2 Chronicles 22:11, are explained 2 Kings 11:1.... [ Continue Reading ]