2 Chronicles 22:7

AHAB'S HOUSE DESTROYED; THE DEATH OF AHAZIAH

"Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went unto Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoran against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. And it came to pass when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them. And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Jehovah with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom."

"The destruction of Ahaziah was of God" (2 Chronicles 22:7). This means that it was due to God's providential arrangements that Ahaziah was found in close companionship with Ahab at the very moment when God's appointed exterminator of the house of Ahab appeared and included Ahaziah in the slaughter, quite properly enough; because by Jehoshaphat's foolish marriage of Ahaziah to Athaliah, Ahab's daughter, he had made his son Ahaziah definitely a part of `the house of Ahab.'

"The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom" (2 Chronicles 22:9). This was the power vacuum that enabled the evil Athaliah to seize the throne and to proceed with her intention of destroying the last vestiges of the house of David, a purpose which, in the providence of God, was thwarted.