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2 Chronicles 22:3

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahab;   Baal;   Fellowship;   Influence;   Rulers;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Counsel;   Evil;   Home;   Influence;   Parental;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Kings;   Parents;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Athaliah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ahaziah;   Athaliah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Counselor;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Joash;   Nathan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahaziah ;   Athaliah ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaziah;   Athaliah;   Woman;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother gave him evil advice.
Hebrew Names Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ach'av; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
King James Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
English Standard Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.
New Century Version
Ahaziah followed the ways of Ahab's family, because his mother encouraged him to do wrong.
New English Translation
He followed in the footsteps of Ahab's dynasty, for his mother gave him evil advice.
Amplified Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his adviser [and she encouraged him] to act wickedly.
New American Standard Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to act wickedly.
World English Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He walked also in the wayes of the house of Ahab: for his mother counselled him to doe wickedly.
Legacy Standard Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
Berean Standard Bible
Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
Contemporary English Version
and she encouraged her son to sin against the Lord . He followed the evil example of King Ahab and his descendants.
Complete Jewish Bible
He too lived after the example of the house of Ach'av, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
Darby Translation
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
Easy-to-Read Version
Ahaziah also lived the way Ahab's family lived because his mother encouraged him to do wrong things.
George Lamsa Translation
And he walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for he was the son of Ahabs sister.
Lexham English Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for doing wickedness.
Literal Translation
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do evilly.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he walked also in ye wayes of the house of Achab: for his mother entysed him so yt he was vngodly.
American Standard Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
Bible in Basic English
He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he walked also in the wayes of the house of Ahab: for his mother by her counsel enticed him to do wickedly.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
King James Version (1611)
Hee also walked in the wayes of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to doe wickedly.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he walked in the way of the house of Achaab; for his mother was his counsellor to do evil.
English Revised Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But he entride bi the weie of the hows of Achab; for his modir compellide hym to do yuele.
Update Bible Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
Webster's Bible Translation
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
New King James Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother advised him to do wickedly.
New Living Translation
Ahaziah also followed the evil example of King Ahab's family, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong.
New Life Bible
Ahaziah walked in the ways of those of Ahab's house. For his mother talked him into doing sinful things.
New Revised Standard
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He too, walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, - for, his mother, became his counselor, to work lawlessness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.
Revised Standard Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.
Young's Literal Translation
he also hath walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother hath been his counsellor to do wickedly.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

Contextual Overview

1The people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram's youngest son, king. Raiders from the desert, who had come with the Arabs against the settlement, had killed all the older sons. That's how Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah became king. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, but reigned only one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, granddaughter of Omri. He lived and ruled just like the Ahab family had done, his mother training him in evil ways. God also considered him evil, related by both marriage and sin to the Ahab clan. After the death of his father, he attended the sin school of Ahab, and graduated with a degree in doom. He did what they taught him, went with Joram son of Ahab king of Israel in the war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. Joram, wounded by the Arameans, retreated to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received in Ramah in his war with Hazael king of Aram. Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah paid a visit to Joram son of Ahab on his sickbed at Jezreel. 7The fate of Ahaziah when he went to visit was God's judgment on him. When Ahaziah arrived at Jezreel, he and Joram met with Jehu son of Nimshi, whom God had already authorized to destroy the dynasty of Ahab. Jehu, already at work, executing doom on the dynasty of Ahab, came upon the captains of Judah and Ahaziah's nephews, part of the Ahaziah delegation, and killed them outright. Then he sent out a search party looking for Ahaziah himself. They found him hiding out in Samaria and hauled him back to Jehu. And Jehu killed him. They didn't, though, just leave his body there. Out of respect for his grandfather Jehoshaphat, famous as a sincere seeker after God , they gave him a decent burial. But there was no one left in Ahaziah's family capable of ruling the kingdom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his mother: Genesis 6:4, Genesis 6:5, Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 7:4, Deuteronomy 13:6-10, Judges 17:4, Judges 17:5, Nehemiah 13:23-27, Malachi 2:15, Matthew 14:8-11

his counsellor: Genesis 27:12, Genesis 27:13, Matthew 10:37, Acts 4:19

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:52 - in the way 2 Kings 3:7 - wilt thou go 2 Kings 8:27 - the son in law 2 Kings 16:3 - he walked 2 Chronicles 18:1 - joined affinity 2 Chronicles 24:17 - the princes of Judah 2 Chronicles 28:2 - For he walked Esther 5:14 - said Zeresh Job 30:8 - children Psalms 1:1 - counsel Psalms 109:14 - let not Mark 6:24 - said

Cross-References

Genesis 17:23
Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all his servants, whether houseborn or purchased—every male in his household—and circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins that very day, just as God had told him.
Genesis 21:14
Abraham got up early the next morning, got some food together and a canteen of water for Hagar, put them on her back and sent her away with the child. She wandered off into the desert of Beersheba. When the water was gone, she left the child under a shrub and went off, fifty yards or so. She said, "I can't watch my son die." As she sat, she broke into sobs.
Genesis 22:3
Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants and his son Isaac. He had split wood for the burnt offering. He set out for the place God had directed him. On the third day he looked up and saw the place in the distance. Abraham told his two young servants, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I are going over there to worship; then we'll come back to you."
Genesis 22:19
Then Abraham went back to his young servants. They got things together and returned to Beersheba. Abraham settled down in Beersheba.
Hebrews 11:8
By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab,.... As his father Jehoram had, 2 Chronicles 21:6

for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly; to commit idolatry, who was of that idolatrous house.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 22:3. His mother was his counsellor — Athaliah, the wicked daughter of a wicked parent, and the wicked spouse of an unprincipled king.


 
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