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2 Chronicles 22:9

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Then 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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Jehovah with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.

KJV

And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

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Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Ahaziah fled first to the garden house and escaped to Samaria; but was here, where he had hid himself, taken by Jehu's men who pursued him, brought to Jehu, who was still near or in Jezreel, and at his command slain at the hill Gur, beside Ibleam, in his chariot; that is, mortally wounded with an arrow, so that he, again fleeing, expired at Megiddo" [KEIL].

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

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 Awakening2 voices

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 Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

He sought Ahaziah - See a different account 2Ki 9:27 (note), and the note there, where the accounts are reconciled.
Compare the marginal reference. Ahaziah after remaining a while at Megiddo, removed to Samaria, where his wounds could be better cared for and concealment might be easier; Jehu’s emissaries discovered him there; they took him to Jehu, who happened at the time to be at Megiddo; and then and there Jehu put him to death.

The words behind it

29 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.

  • וַיְבַקֵּשׁ֩and he sought to find

    vayvakeshH1245 →225 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֨הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH274 →37 times

  • וַֽיִּלְכְּדֻ֜הוּand people captured him

    vaiyilkeduhuH3920 →121 times

  • וְה֧וּאand he

    vehu'H1931 →1879 times

  • מִתְחַבֵּ֣א[was] hiding himself

    mitchabe'H2244 →33 times

  • בְשֹֽׁמְר֗וֹןin Samaria

    veshomeronH8111 →109 times

  • וַיְבִאֻ֣הוּand they brought him

    vayviuhuH935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יֵהוּא֮Jehu

    yehu'H3058 →58 times

  • וַיְמִתֻהוּ֒and they put to death him

    vaymituhuH4191 →839 times

  • וַֽיִּקְבְּרֻ֔הוּand they buried him

    vaiyikberuhuH6912 →133 times

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • אָֽמְרוּ֙they said

    ʾameruH559 →5305 times

  • בֶּן־[was] [the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְהוֹשָׁפָ֣טJehoshaphat

    yehoshafatH3092 →84 times

  • ה֔וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • דָּרַ֥שׁhe sought

    darashH1875 →164 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בְּכָל־with all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • לְבָב֑וֹheart his

    levavoH3824 →252 times

  • וְאֵין֙and not

    veeinH369 →789 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתfor [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֔הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH274 →37 times

  • לַעְצֹ֥רto retain

    la'tzorH6113 →47 times

  • כֹּ֖חַstrength

    koachH3581 →126 times

  • לְמַמְלָכָֽה׃for kingship

    lemamlakhahH4467 →117 times

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

Related verses

12 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.

Jeremiah 29:13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.25 works2 Kings 9:27–28When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.2 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 21:20Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.2 works2 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.2 works1 Kings 13:21and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,2 works
The other 6 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Kings 14:13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.2 works2 Chronicles 22:8So 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.2 works2 Chronicles 17:3–4Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek out the Baals,2 works1 Kings 21:18“Get up and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria. See, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, of which he has gone to take possession.2 works2 Kings 10:1Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:2 works2 Kings 9:34Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”1 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 21:17

    So 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…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 22:1

      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.…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 21:20

    Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 22:18

      Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas,…

    • 2 Chronicles 24:25

      And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his…

    • 2 Chronicles 28:27

      And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his…

    • Jeremiah 22:28

      Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 21:4

    When 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.

    it leads to

    • Judges 9:5

      He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

  • Through

    1 Kings 13:21

    and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 15:22–24

      But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of…

    • 1 Samuel 13:13–14

      “You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.

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.
2 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 2 Chronicles 22 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Against the Pelagians 2.21; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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