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2 Chronicles 22:1

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Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Made Ahaziah his youngest son king - All the others had been slain by the Arabians, etc.; see the preceding chapter, 2Ch 21:17 (note).

This site's exposition

made Ahaziah his youngest son king

on 2 Chronicles 22:1-2

Only the youngest son is left to crown, since the Arabian raid already named at the end of the previous chapter had killed the elder brothers. Chronicles gives his age as forty and two, though 2 Kings 8:26 gives twenty and two, and the bench reads the gap as a scribal slip between the Hebrew letters for twenty and forty rather than two figures needing to be forced together. Matthew Henry offers a second reading, that the number first described Athaliah's own age as mother, since her rule over the reign is the verse's real subject either way.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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The words behind it

22 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.

  • וַיַּמְלִיכוּ֩and they made king

    vaiyamlikhuH4427 →348 times

  • יוֹשְׁבֵ֨י[the] inhabitants of

    yosheveiH3427 →1079 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜םJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389 →643 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֨הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH274 →37 times

  • בְנ֤וֹson his

    venoH1121 →4930 times

  • הַקָּטֹן֙<the> young

    hakatonH6996 →101 times

  • תַּחְתָּ֔יוin place of him

    tachtavH8478 →505 times

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָרִאשֹׁנִים֙the former [sons]

    harishonimH7223 →182 times

  • הָרַ֣גit had killed

    haragH2026 →167 times

  • הַגְּד֔וּדthe marauding band

    hagedudH1416 →33 times

  • הַבָּ֥אwhich came

    haba'H935 →2568 times

  • בָֽעַרְבִ֖יםwith the Arabs

    vaarvimH6163 →9 times

  • לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑הto the camp

    lamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְand he became king

    vaiyimlokhH4427 →348 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֥הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH274 →37 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְהוֹרָ֖םJehoram

    yehoramH3088 →29 times

  • מֶ֥לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָֽה׃ פJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

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

Related verses

11 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 Chronicles 21:17So they went to war against Judah, invaded it, and carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace, along with his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest.7 works2 Chronicles 21:16–17Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.5 works2 Kings 8:24–29And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.4 works2 Chronicles 36:1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.3 works2 Chronicles 33:25But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.3 works2 Chronicles 23:3the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. “Behold, the king’s son!” said Jehoiada. “He must reign, just as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.3 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Chronicles 26:1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.3 works2 Chronicles 25:23There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.3 works1 Chronicles 3:11Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,2 works2 Chronicles 22:6so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.2 works2 Kings 21:24But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.2 works

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

    2 Chronicles 33:25

    But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 26:1

      All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Chronicles 34:1

      Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 23:3

    the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. “Behold, the king’s son!” said Jehoiada. “He must reign, just as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 21:7

      Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants…

    • 2 Samuel 7:12

      And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

    • 2 Chronicles 6:16

      Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the…

    • 1 Kings 2:4

      and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a…

    • 2 Chronicles 7:18

      then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.’

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 36:1

    Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 22:11

      For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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