歷代志下 22:2 CUNPTS

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 22:2

2 Chronicles 22:2. Forty and two years old was Ahaziah It is said ( 2Ki 8:26 ) that he was but two and twenty years old when he began to reign; so that, it is probable, an error has been committed here by the copyist or transcriber. For some Greek copies have here twenty-two years old, and it is so in the Syriac and Arabic translations, and particularly in that most ancient copy of the Syriac, which was used by the church at Antioch in the primitive times, and to this day is kept in the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 22:1-12

Jezebel’s Baalism in Judah (21:1-23:21)The Baalism of Ahab and Jezebel remained strong in the northern kingdom during the successive reigns of their sons Ahaziah and Joram (2 Kings 1:1-8:15). It spread to Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram, who was married to Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel (21:1-20; see notes on 2 Kings 8:16-24).Judah’s next king, Ahaziah, at the direction of his mother Athaliah and her northern relatives, cooperated with the idolatrous northern... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Chronicles 22:2

Forty and two years old = a son of forty-two years: i.e. of the house of Omri, on account of his connection with it through his mother (832-790 = 42). In 2 Kings 8:26 Ahaziah's actual age (twenty-two years) is given when he began to reign (790) during the two years of his father's disease. His father, Jehoram, was thirty-two when he began to reign with Jehoshaphat, two years before the latter's death (2 Kings 8:16 ). This was in 796. Jehoram therefore was born in 828. Ahaziah, his son, being... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Chronicles 22:2

2 Chronicles 22:2. Forty-and-two years old was Ahaziah— Twenty-and -two years old. Houbigant; the Syriac and Arabic versions. See 2 Kings 8:26. Others say, that we should read, Ahaziah was the son of the two-and-forty years; i.e. counting from the beginning of the reign of the house of Omri, from which he descended by the mother's side. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 22:2

2. Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign—(Compare :-). According to that passage, the commencement of his reign is dated in the twenty-second year of his age, and, according to this, in the forty-second year of the kingdom of his mother's family [LIGHTFOOT]. "If Ahaziah ascended the throne in the twenty-second year of his life, he must have been born in his father's nineteenth year. Hence, it may seem strange that he had older brothers; but in the East they marry early,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 22:1-12

F. Ahaziah ch. 22The house of Ahab also strongly influenced Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 22:3). His mother was Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. Because of his apostasy, Jehu executed Ahaziah, along with his uncle Joram, the king of Israel. Ahaziah had no descendant who could succeed him on the throne when he died (2 Chronicles 22:9). His mother killed all his sons except one, whom the high priest and his wife hid away when he was only an infant (2 Chronicles 22:10-11)."The fact that royal... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 22:1-12

Reign of AhaziahThis chapter reproduces with some differences 2 Kings 8:24-29 and 2 Kings 11:1-3 (the intervening chapters being omitted because they relate exclusively to Israel).2. Forty and two] This must be an error, for his father was only 40 when he died (2 Chronicles 21:20). 2 Kings 8:26 has ’twenty-two.’6. Azariah] An error for ’Ahaziah,’ which LXX has. 7. Had anointed] see 2 Kings 9:1-10.8. The sons of the brethren, etc.] i.e. of the elder sons of Jehoram who were killed by the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 22:2

(2) Forty and two years old.—An error of transcription. 2 Kings 8:26, twenty and two; and so the Syriac and Arabic: the LXX. has “twenty.” Ahaziah could not have been forty when he succeeded, because his father was only forty when he died (2 Chronicles 21:20).Athaliah the daughter of Omri—i.e., granddaughter, she being daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. Kings adds, “king of Israel,” which the chronicler purposely omits. (Comp. Micah 6:16 : “The statutes of Omri,” “the works of the house of Ahab.”) read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 22:1-12

JEHORAM, AHAZIAH, AND ATHALIAH: THE CONSEQUENCES OF A FOREIGN MARRIAGE2 Chronicles 21:1-20; 2 Chronicles 22:1-12; 2 Chronicles 23:1-21THE accession of Jehoram is one of the instances in which a wicked son succeeded to a conspicuously pious father, but in this case there is no difficulty in explaining the phenomenon: the depraved character and evil deeds of Jehoram, Ahaziah, and Athaliah are at once accounted for when we remember that they were respectively the son-in-law, grandson, and daughter... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Chronicles 22:1-12

CHAPTER 22 Ahaziah and Athaliah 1. Ahaziah and his evil reign (2 Chronicles 22:1-4 ) 2. His alliance with Ahab’s son (2 Chronicles 22:5 ) 3. At Jezreel (2 Chronicles 22:6-7 ) 4. Jehu’s judgment and Ahaziah’s end (2 Chronicles 22:8-9 ) 5. Athaliah (2 Chronicles 22:10-12 ) When the Philistines and Arabians invaded Judah they carried away the treasures of Jehoram, and slew his sons. Only Jehoahaz the youngest son was left (2 Chronicles 21:17 ). He is also known as Ahaziah and Azariah.... read more