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1–9. The accession of Ahaziah, the 7th king of Judah, his unholy alliance with the king of Israel and death at the hand of Jehu. 10–12. The bloody reign of the cruel Athaliah. 2 Chronicles 22:1. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, since all the elders were killed by the horde that came with the Arabians to the camp, and Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, reigned. See above (2 Chron. 21:17) and comments on this verse in The Expository Bible, vol. III, p. 139. 2 Chronicles 22:2. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem; His mother's name was Athaliah, daughter of Omri. According to the Jewish test and Vulgata verse 2, Ahaziah was 42 years old at his accession, while according to verse 20 of chapter 21, Ahaziah’s father Joram died at the age of forty, therefore, his son then had a significantly smaller number of years. According to (2 Kings 8:26), Ahaziah reigned for 22 years. The date “22” also appears in the margins of Code 500 in Russia. The same date is accepted by LXX according to the Alexandrian Codex and codes 19, 55, 93, 108 (in the accepted Greek text there is: ὢv ἐτῶν εἴκοσι - about 20 years); it is contained in the Slavic and Russian texts and the parallel passage (2 Kings 8:26) fully confirms this reading. The error in the Masoretic text could easily have arisen from a confusion of the letters כ (kaph, 20) and מ (mem, 40). 2 Chronicles 22:3. He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, because his mother was his adviser in lawless deeds. 2 Chronicles 22:4. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab, because he was their counselor after the death of his father, to his destruction. The wicked character of the one-year (cf. v. 4) reign of Ahaziah is depicted here in the same way as in a parallel passage (2 Kings 8:27), but with the additional remark that his wickedness was formed under the influence of Athaliah and other related members of the house of Ahab. 2 Chronicles 22:5. Also following their advice, he went with Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians wounded Joram, 2 Chronicles 22:6. and he returned to Jezreel to be treated for the wounds that were inflicted on him in Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Joram, king of Judah, came to visit Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. The fatal journey of Ahaziah of Judah, together with Joram of Israel, to war against the Syrians is spoken of here in the same way as (2 Kings 8:28–29). At the end of verse 5, the Hebrew word harammim, rendered in the Chaldean, Vulgate, and Russian texts by the proper name “Arameans,” that is, Syrians, in the LXX is taken as a common noun from the root ramah “throw” and is rendered as τοξόται, in the Slavic text: “streltsy.” In Art. 6 Ahaziah in the accepted Hebrew text is called Azariah (Kalmet therefore suggests that this king had three names: Ahaziah, Jehoahaz, Azariah), but probably due to a copyist error. In codices 2, 17, 80, 82, 219, 224 (marginalia), 235 (marginalia) 246, 531, 602, 607, 228, 590 in Kenicot; 196, 554, 737, 380 Russia has the name Achazijahu - Ahaziah; so in the LXX, in the Vulgate, Slavic and Russian texts. 2 Chronicles 22:7. And it was from God to the destruction of Ahaziah that he came to Jehoram: for when he came, he went out with Joram against Jehu the son of Namashe, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab. 2 Chronicles 22:8. When Jehu carried out judgment on the house of Ahab, then he found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who served Ahaziah, and killed them. 2 Chronicles 22:9. And he [ordered] to look for Ahaziah, and they took him when he was hiding in Samaria, and brought him to Jehu, and killed him, and buried him, for they said: he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart. And there was not left in the house of Ahaziah who could reign. Wed. (2 Kings 9:21–28). See The Interpretive Bible, vol. II, p. 511. 2 Chronicles 22:10. For Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, when she saw that her son was dead, rose up and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah. 2 Chronicles 22:11. But Jehoshabeth, the king's daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons who were being killed, and placed him and his nurse in the bedroom; and thus Joshabeth, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, the sister of Ahaziah, hid Joash from Athaliah, and she did not kill him. 2 Chronicles 22:12. And he was hidden with them in the house of God for six years; Athaliah reigned over the earth. Wed. (2 Kings 11:1-3). The Explanatory Bible, vol. II, p. 513. From Art. 11 we learn for the first time that Jehoshabeth was the wife of the high priest Jehoiada in (2 Kings 11:2), this is not mentioned. The very spelling of the name Jehoshabeth is not the same in the Hebrew text of 2 Kings (Iehoscheva) and 2 Chronicles: Iehoschavath. This mention is quite consistent with the documentary, mainly genealogical, nature of the book of Chronicles. You might be interested in: