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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 22:3

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 22 In this chapter we have an account of the wicked reign of Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, 2 Chronicles 22:1 of his death, the occasion and manner of it, 2 Chronicles 22:5 and of his mother Athaliah destroying all the royal seed, excepting one, who was hid by the king's sister, and assuming the government to herself, 2 Chronicles 22:10.

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab,.... As his father Jehoram had, 2 Chronicles 21:6 for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly; to commit idolatry, who was of that idolatrous house.

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

We read, in the foregoing chapter, of the carrying away of Jehoram's sons and his wives; but here we find one of his sons and one of his wives left, his son Ahaziah and his wife Athaliah, both reserved to be the shame and plague of his family. I. Ahaziah was the shame of it as a partaker, 1. In the sin, and, 2. In the destruction, of the house of Ahab, ver. 1-9. II. Athaliah was the plague of it,...