Verse 12
JEHU'S MURDER OF FORTY-TWO MEN WAS ASSOCIATED WITH AHAZIAH
"And he arose and departed, and went to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing-house of the shepherds in the way, 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. And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them."
"The brethren of Ahaziah" (2 Kings 10:13). Ahaziah had no brothers, in the usual sense of the word; so these were probably close kin, such as nephews and cousins (See 2 Chronicles 22:8). They were princes of Judah who ministered to Ahaziah.
"The children of the queen" (2 Kings 10:13). The RSV is preferable here which reads, `the queen-mother.' Since Ahaziah king of Judah had taken a daughter of Jezebel and Ahab as his wife, there is little wonder that this king of Judah was identified heart and soul with Ahab's god, of which Josephus flatly declared, "Ahab's god was Baal."[11]
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