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2 Kings 10:13

in 2 Kings 10

Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah: and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.

KJV

Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.

This verse in 2 Kings 10

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
The brethren of Ahaziah - Not the actual brothers of Ahaziah, who had all been slain by the Arabs before his accession to the throne 2Ch 21:17; 2Ch 22:1; but his nephews, the sons of his brothers (marginal reference). It is remarkable that they should have penetrated so far into the kingdom of Israel without having heard of the revolution.

This site's exposition

at the shearing house in the way

on 2 Kings 10:12-14

On the road to Samaria, at a place named for shepherds binding their flocks to shear them, Jehu meets forty-two kinsmen of Ahaziah of Judah traveling north in ignorance of the revolution. He takes them alive and kills every one at the pit of the shearing house, a slaughter that reaches south into David's own line even though Ahaziah himself had already died at Jehu's hand. The same totality appears again when Athaliah moves against Judah's own royal line at chapter eleven, a crime this chapter's slaughter of Ahaziah's kinsmen already anticipates.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The brethren of Ahaziah - The relatives of his family; for it does not appear that he had any brethren, properly so called: but we know that the term brethren among the Jews signified the relatives of the same family, and especially brothers’ and sisters’ children: and that these were such, see 2Ch 22:8. We go down to salute, etc. - So promptly had Jehu executed all his measures, that even the nearest relatives of the murdered kings had not heard of their death, and consequently had no time to escape. They were all taken as in a net.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

And the queen’s sons. Ezevel. 6 They were unaware that Yeihu killed Yehorom, otherwise they would have fled.—Radak
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Kings 10:13:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

20 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.

  • וְיֵה֗וּאand Jehu

    veyehu'H305858 times

  • מָצָא֙he found

    matza'H4672455 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • אֲחֵי֙[the] brothers of

    ʾacheiH251630 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֣הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH27437 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֔הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • וַיֹּ֖אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • מִ֣יwho?

    miH4310423 times

  • אַתֶּ֑ם[are] you

    ʾatemH8591094 times

  • וַיֹּאמְר֗וּand they said

    vaiyomeruH5595305 times

  • אֲחֵ֤י[are] [the] brothers of

    ʾacheiH251630 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֙הוּ֙Ahaziah

    ʾachazyahuH27437 times

  • אֲנַ֔חְנוּwe

    ʾanachnuH587120 times

  • וַנֵּ֛רֶדand we have come down

    vaneredH3381381 times

  • לִשְׁל֥וֹםfor [the] peace of

    lishlomH7965236 times

  • בְּנֵֽי־[the] sons of

    benei-H11214930 times

  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH44282525 times

  • וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH11214930 times

  • הַגְּבִירָֽה׃the queen-mother

    hagevirahH1377

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

    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 Kings 8:24

    And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 25:23

      There 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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Chronicles 22:6

      so 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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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…

    • 2 Chronicles 21:1

      And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.

    • 1 Kings 14:20

      And the length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.

  • Through

    2 Kings 8:29

    So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 9:15–16

      but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders…

    • 2 Kings 8:28

      Then Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.