2 Chronicles 22:8
in 2 Chronicles 22So 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 verseAnd 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
the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren
on 2 Chronicles 22:8-9
Chronicles compresses two episodes Kings tells at length, the slaughter of Ahaziah's kinsmen at the shearing house of 2 Kings 10:12-14 and his own death and burial at 2 Kings 9:27-28, into two verses naming only that Jehu found and slew the officials who ministered to Ahaziah, then hunted the king himself out of hiding in Samaria. The burial reason Chronicles supplies, because he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart, has no equivalent clause in Kings and reaches back to the refrain the book uses to measure Jehoshaphat's whole reign. A wicked son still receives a king's grave on his grandfather's account, and the house of Ahaziah is left, in the narrator's own words, with no power to keep still the kingdom.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
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
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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְהִ֕י | vayhi | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| כְּהִשָּׁפֵ֥ט | kehishafet | when entered into judgment | H8199 → | 202 times |
| יֵה֖וּא | yehu' | Jehu | H3058 → | 58 times |
| עִם־ | ʾim- | with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| בֵּ֣ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| אַחְאָ֑ב | ʾachav | Ahab | H256 → | 92 times |
| וַיִּמְצָא֩ | vaiyimtza' | and he found | H4672 → | 455 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שָׂרֵ֨י | sarei | [the] officials of | H8269 → | 421 times |
| יְהוּדָ֜ה | yehudah | Judah | H3063 → | 819 times |
| וּבְנֵ֨י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֲחֵ֧י | ʾachei | [the] brothers of | H251 → | 630 times |
| אֲחַזְיָ֛הוּ | ʾachazyahu | Ahaziah | H274 → | 37 times |
| מְשָׁרְתִ֥ים | mesharetim | serving | H8334 → | 97 times |
| לַאֲחַזְיָ֖הוּ | laachazyahu | <to> Ahaziah | H274 → | 37 times |
| וַיַּהַרְגֵֽם׃ | vaiyahargem | and he killed them | H2026 → | 167 times |
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.
About 2 Chronicles
Who and where
3 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsJudahJacob's fourth son who pledges himself for Benjamin; the tribe that carries the scepter to Shiloh (49:10) and the line to Christ (…
- PersonDivided kingdomAhabSeventh king of the northern kingdom, son of Omri, who "did evil above all that were before him"; Elijah's chief antagonist, conde…
- PersonDivided kingdomJehuThe furious-driving commander anointed at Elisha's order who purged the house of Ahab and Baal from Israel — zealous for the LORD,…
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.