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2 Chronicles 22:5

in 2 Chronicles 22

Ahaziah also followed their counsel and went with Joram son of Ahab king of Israel to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. But the Arameans wounded Joram;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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 wounded Joram.

KJV

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.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 22

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

his mother was his counselor

on 2 Chronicles 22:3-6

The march to Ramoth-gilead and the wound Joram carries back to Jezreel repeat the account of 2 Kings 8:28-29. Chronicles adds the cause: “his mother was his counselor in wickedness”. Verse 4 names the house of Ahab as the counselors who worked his destruction “after the death of his father”.

This site's exposition

to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead

Ahaziah repeats his grandfather's error, for Jehoshaphat had gone to war at Ramoth-gilead beside Ahab. Gill notes that the counsel of verse 4 governed his politics as well as his worship. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown add that the names of Jehu and Hazael both appear on Assyrian monuments.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

He walked also after their counsel,.... Did as they advised him, as in matters of religion, so in political things, of which there is an instance in this and the next verse; of which see Gill on 2Ki 8:28, 2Ki 8:29.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

went . . . to war against Hazael, king of Syria--It may be mentioned as a very minute and therefore important confirmation of this part of the sacred history that the names of Jehu and Hazael, his contemporary, have both been found on Assyrian sculptures; and there is also a notice of Ithbaal, king of Sidon, who was the father of Jezebel.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Went with Jehoram - See on 2Ki 8:28 (note).

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • גַּ֣םalso

    gamH1571 →769 times

  • בַּעֲצָתָם֮in counsel their

    baatzatamH6098 →89 times

  • הָלַךְ֒he walked

    halakhH1980 →1546 times

  • וַיֵּלֶךְ֩and he went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • אֶת־with

    ʾet-H854 →929 times

  • יְהוֹרָ֨םJehoram

    yehoramH3088 →29 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אַחְאָ֜בAhab

    ʾachavH256 →92 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לַמִּלְחָמָ֛הto <the> war

    lamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • חֲזָאֵ֥לHazael

    chazaelH2371 →

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • אֲרָ֖םAram

    ʾaramH758 →143 times

  • בְּרָמ֣וֹתat Ramoth

    beramotH7418 →22 times

  • גִּלְעָ֑דGilead

    giladH1568 →134 times

  • וַיַּכּ֥וּand they wounded

    vaiyakuH5221 →499 times

  • הָֽרַמִּ֖יםthe Arameans

    haramimH7421 →

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יוֹרָֽם׃Joram

    yoramH3141 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 1:1

    Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 26:4–5

      I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

    • Proverbs 4:14–15

      Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

    • Proverbs 13:20

      He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

    • Psalms 119:1–2

      Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.

    • Jeremiah 15:17

      I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

  • Through

    Micah 6:16

    You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 51:51

      “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”

    • Jeremiah 7:24

      Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

    • Isaiah 25:8

      He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).