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2 Chronicles 22:8

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So while Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them.

KJV

And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 22

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And it came to pass, that when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab,.... On Joram, his son, and seventy more sons, his kinsfolks, courtiers, and priests: and found the princes of Judah, and or even the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah; whose number was forty two: that ministered to Ahaziah; had offices in his court, or in obedience to his will, went to visit the children of the king and queen of Israel: and he slew them; Jehu did; of the occasion, time, and place of his meeting with them, and slaying them, see 2Ki 10:12.

This site's exposition

he found the rulers of Judah

on 2 Chronicles 22:8-9

Chronicles compresses two episodes Kings tells at length, the killing of Ahaziah's kinsmen at 2 Kings 10:12-14 and his own death at 2 Kings 9:27-28. The reason for his burial has no equivalent in Kings: “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart”.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Against the Pelagians 2.21 · Written before 420.

proposed

The Lord established the kingdom in Jehoshaphat's hand, and all Judah brought presents to him. And he acquired immense wealth and riches and much glory.… And, lest we suppose that the justice he possessed in the past was destroyed by the fact that he committed this sin and was reproved by the prophet, it is written subsequently of Uzziah, his descendant, that Jehu found him lying in Samaria, and, when he was brought in, he killed him: "And they buried him," he says, "because he was the son of Jehoshaphat, who has sought the Lord with all his heart."

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

His providence brought Ahaziah, just at this fatal juncture, to see Joram, that he might fall with him and be taken as in a snare. This we had an account of before, 2 Kings ix. It is here added that he was decently buried (not as Jehoram, whose dead body was cast into Naboth's vineyard, 2 Kings ix.

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The words behind it

16 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.

  • וַיְהִ֕יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • כְּהִשָּׁפֵ֥טwhen entered into judgment

    kehishafetH8199 →202 times

  • יֵה֖וּאJehu

    yehu'H3058 →58 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • בֵּ֣ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • אַחְאָ֑בAhab

    ʾachavH256 →92 times

  • וַיִּמְצָא֩and he found

    vaiyimtza'H4672 →455 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • שָׂרֵ֨י[the] officials of

    sareiH8269 →421 times

  • יְהוּדָ֜הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • וּבְנֵ֨יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אֲחֵ֧י[the] brothers of

    ʾacheiH251 →630 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֛הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH274 →37 times

  • מְשָׁרְתִ֥יםserving

    mesharetimH8334 →97 times

  • לַאֲחַזְיָ֖הוּ<to> Ahaziah

    laachazyahuH274 →37 times

  • וַיַּהַרְגֵֽם׃and he killed them

    vaiyahargemH2026 →167 times

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

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 10:10–14Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”3 works2 Chronicles 24:24Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash.3 works2 Kings 10:17When Jehu came to Samaria, he struck down everyone belonging to Ahab who remained there, until he had destroyed them, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to Elijah.3 works2 Chronicles 21:4When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened himself by putting to the sword all his brothers along with some of the princes of Israel.2 works2 Chronicles 22:9Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So no one was left from the house of Ahaziah with the strength to rule the kingdom.2 works2 Kings 10:14Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.2 works

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Against the Pelagians 2.21; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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