2 Chronicles 22

2 Chronicles 22 - Introduction

_AHAZIAH'S WICKED REIGN. HE IS SLAIN BY JEHU. ATHALIAH, DESTROYING ALL THE SEED ROYAL, EXCEPT JOASH, USURPS THE KINGDOM._ _Before Christ 884._... [ Continue Reading ]

2 Chronicles 22:2

FORTY-AND-TWO YEARS OLD WAS AHAZIAH— _Twenty-and -two years old._ Houbigant; the Syriac and Arabic versions. See 2 Kings 8:26. Others say, that we should read, _Ahaziah was the son of the two-and-forty years;_ i.e. counting from the beginning of the reign of the house of Omri, from which he descende... [ Continue Reading ]

2 Chronicles 22:9

AND HE SOUGHT AHAZIAH, &C.— _And when he pursued Ahaziah himself, they found him as he lay hid at Samaria._ See 2 Kings 9:27. Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Ahaziah, called Jehoahaz, the name being the same in signification, who alone had escaped the massacre of the Arabians, succeeded his father. The... [ Continue Reading ]