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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 22:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| 2Ch 22:9 |
Strong Concordance |
And he sought [01245] Ahaziah [0274]: and they caught [03920] him, (for he was hid [02244] in Samaria [08111],) and brought [0935] him to Jehu [03058]: and when they had slain [04191] him, they buried [06912] him: Because, said [0559] they, he is the son [01121] of Jehoshaphat [03092], who sought [01875] the LORD [03068] with all his heart [03824]. So the house [01004] of Ahaziah [0274] had no power [03581] to keep [06113] still the kingdom [04467]. |
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King James |
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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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (for he was hid in Samaria)--(compare Kg2 9:27-29). The two accounts are easily reconciled. "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]. Jehu left the corpse at the disposal of the king of Judah's attendants, who conveyed it to Jerusalem, and out of respect to his grandfather Jehoshaphat's memory, gave him an honorable interment in the tombs of the kings.
So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom--His children were too young to assume the reins of government, and all the other royal princes had been massacred by Jehu (Ch2 22:8). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 narrative here is therefore supplementary to that of 2 Kings, and finds its proper place between the clause," He fled to Megiddo," and the words "and died there."
And when they had slain him, they buried him - Jehu's emissaries killed him but allowed his servants to bury him (see Kg2 9:28).
No power ... - As Ahaziah was but twenty-three at his death (Ch2 22:2 note), he had no grown-up son to take the crown. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Ahaziah - Who, tho' wounded, had made an escape, Kg2 9:27. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| He sought Ahaziah - See a different account Kg2 9:27 (note), and the note there, where the accounts are reconciled. |
8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu [03058] was executing judgment [08199] upon the house [01004] of Ahab [0256], and found [04672] the princes [08269] of Judah [03063], and the sons [01121] of the brethren [0251] of Ahaziah [0274], that ministered [08334] to Ahaziah [0274], he slew [02026] them.
27 But when Ahaziah [0274] the king [04428] of Judah [03063] saw [07200] this, he fled [05127] by the way [01870] of the garden [01588] house [01004]. And Jehu [03058] followed [07291] after [0310] him, and said [0559], Smite [05221] him also in the chariot [04818]. And they did so at the going up [04608] to Gur [01483], which is by Ibleam [02991]. And he fled [05127] to Megiddo [04023], and died [04191] there.
28 And his servants [05650] carried [07392] him in a chariot to Jerusalem [03389], and buried [06912] him in his sepulchre [06900] with his fathers [01] in the city [05892] of David [01732].
29 And in the eleventh [0259] [06240] [08141] year [08141] of Joram [03141] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] began Ahaziah [0274] to reign [04427] over Judah [03063].
2 Forty [0705] and two [08147] years [08141] old [01121] was Ahaziah [0274] when he began to reign [04427], and he reigned [04427] one [0259] year [08141] in Jerusalem [03389]. His mother's [0517] name [08034] also was Athaliah [06271] the daughter [01323] of Omri [06018].
28 And his servants [05650] carried [07392] him in a chariot to Jerusalem [03389], and buried [06912] him in his sepulchre [06900] with his fathers [01] in the city [05892] of David [01732].
27 But when Ahaziah [0274] the king [04428] of Judah [03063] saw [07200] this, he fled [05127] by the way [01870] of the garden [01588] house [01004]. And Jehu [03058] followed [07291] after [0310] him, and said [0559], Smite [05221] him also in the chariot [04818]. And they did so at the going up [04608] to Gur [01483], which is by Ibleam [02991]. And he fled [05127] to Megiddo [04023], and died [04191] there.
27 But when Ahaziah [0274] the king [04428] of Judah [03063] saw [07200] this, he fled [05127] by the way [01870] of the garden [01588] house [01004]. And Jehu [03058] followed [07291] after [0310] him, and said [0559], Smite [05221] him also in the chariot [04818]. And they did so at the going up [04608] to Gur [01483], which is by Ibleam [02991]. And he fled [05127] to Megiddo [04023], and died [04191] there.