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¹ And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with theMeaning the Philistines.Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

² Read (2Ch_21:20).Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reignedThat is, after the death of his father.one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Athaliah the daughterShe was Ahab's daughter, who was the son of Omri.of Omri.

³ He walked also in the wayes of the house of Ahab: for his mother counselled him to doe wickedly.

⁴ Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were hisHe shows that it follows that the rulers are as their counsellors are and that there cannot be a good king who allows wicked counsellors.counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.

⁵ And he walked after their counsel, & went with Iehoram the sonne of Ahab King of Israel to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead: and the Aramites smote Ioram.

⁶ And he returned to be healed in Izreel, because of the woundes wherewith they had wounded him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael King of Aram. Nowe Azariah the sonne of Iehoram King of Iudah went downe to see Iehoram the sonne of Ahab at Izreel, because hee was diseased.

⁷ And the destruction of AhaziahBy this we see that nothing can come to any but by God's providence and as he has appointed, and therefore he causes everything to serve his purposes.was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

⁸ Therefore when Iehu executed iudgemet vpon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Iudah and the sonnes of the brethren of Ahaziah that waited on Ahaziah, he slew them also.

⁹ 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 ofThis was the just plague of God because he joined himself with God's enemies: yet God to declare the worthiness of Jehoshaphat his grandfather moved them to give him the honour of burial.Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

¹⁰ But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose andSo that there would be no one to claim the crown and so she might usurp the government.destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.

¹¹ But Iehoshabeath the daughter of ye King, tooke Ioash the sonne of Ahaziah, and stale him from among the Kings sonnes, that shoulde be slayne, & put him & his nource in the bed chamber: so Iehoshabeath the daughter of King Iehoram the wife of Iehoiada the Priest (for shee was the sister of Ahaziah) hid him from Athaliah: so she slew him not.

¹² And he was with them hid in theMeaning, in the chamber where the priests and Levites slept, who kept their courses weekly in the temple.house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over theThat is, of Judah.land.