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2 Raja-raja 8:18

Ia hidup menurut kelakuan raja-raja Israel seperti yang dilakukan keluarga Ahab, sebab yang menjadi isterinya adalah anak Ahab. Ia melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Athaliah;   Influence;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jehoram;   Rulers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Joram or Jehoram;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehoram;   Phoenicia;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Athaliah;   Jehoram;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Libnah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Athaliah;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Jehoram;   Jehoshaphat;   Jezebel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hazael ;   Joram, Jehoram;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ramothgilead;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaziah;   Athaliah;   Elisha;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Athaliah;   Jehoram;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jehoram (Joram);   Jehoshaphat;   Kings, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ia hidup menurut kelakuan raja-raja Israel seperti yang dilakukan keluarga Ahab, sebab yang menjadi isterinya adalah anak Ahab. Ia melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka berjalanlah ia pada jalan segala raja orang Israel, sama seperti perbuatan orang isi istana Akhab, karena anak Akhabpun telah menjadi isterinya, dan dibuatnya barang yang jahat kepada pemandangan Tuhan.

Contextual Overview

16 The fyft yere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab king of Israel, Iehosaphat being also king of Iuda, Ioram the sonne of Iehosaphat king of Iuda began to raigne. 17 Thirtie and two yeres olde was he when he began to raigne, and he raigned eyght yeres in Hierusalem. 18 And he walked in the wayes of the kinges of Israel, as they that were of the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wyfe, and he dyd euyll in the sight of the Lorde. 19 And the Lord woulde not destroy Iuda [and that] because of Dauid his seruaunt, as he promised him, to geue him alway a light among his children. 20 In those dayes Edom rebelled from vnder the hand of Iuda: for they made them a king of their owne. 21 So Ioram wet to Zair, he & al his charettes with him: And he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in with the captaynes of his charettes, and the people fled into their tentes. 22 But Edom rebelled, so that he woulde not be vnder the hande of Iuda vnto this day: Then Libnah rebelled that same time. 23 The rest of the wordes that concerne Ioram, and al that he dyd, are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda? 24 And Ioram rested with his fathers, and was buried besyde his fathers in the citie of Dauid: And Ahaziahu his sonne raigned in his steade.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the way: 2 Kings 3:2, 2 Kings 3:3, 1 Kings 22:52, 1 Kings 22:53

the house: 2 Kings 9:7, 2 Kings 9:8, 2 Kings 21:3, 2 Kings 21:13, 2 Chronicles 21:13, Micah 6:16

the daughter: 2 Kings 8:26, 1 Kings 21:25, 2 Chronicles 18:1, 2 Chronicles 19:2, 2 Chronicles 21:6, 2 Chronicles 22:1-4

his wife: Genesis 6:1-5, Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 7:4, 1 Kings 11:1-5, Nehemiah 13:25, Nehemiah 13:26

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:2 - Jehoshaphat 1 Kings 22:44 - made peace 2 Kings 8:27 - he walked 2 Kings 10:14 - neither left 2 Kings 16:3 - he walked 2 Kings 17:19 - walked 2 Kings 23:19 - the kings 2 Chronicles 17:4 - not after Job 30:8 - children Micah 1:13 - for

Cross-References

Psalms 121:8
God wyll preserue thy goyng out and thy commyng in: from this tyme foorth for euermore.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he walked in the way of the king's of Israel, as did the house of Ahab,.... Imitated them in idolatry:

for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; whose name was Athaliah, 2 Kings 8:26, and by her he was drawn into idolatrous practices; of such bad consequence are marriages with idolaters; it is very much that so good a king as Jehoshaphat his father was should contract such an affinity; he suffered for it in more instances than one:

and he did evil in the sight of the Lord; was guilty of idolatry, than which nothing was more displeasing to the Lord; for he made high places, and compelled his subjects to commit idolatry, 2 Chronicles 21:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The passage is parenthetic, resuming the history of the kingdom of Judah from 1 Kings 22:50.

2 Kings 8:16

The opening words are - “In the fifth year of Joram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, and of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah;” but they contradict all the other chronological notices of Jehoshaphat 1 Kings 22:42, 1Ki 22:51; 2 Kings 3:1; 2 Chronicles 20:31, which give him a reign of at least twenty-three years. Hence, some have supposed that the words “Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah,” are accidentally repeated. Those, however, who regard them and 2 Kings 1:17 as sound, suppose that Jehoshaphat gave his son the royal title in his 16th year, while he advanced him to a real association in the empire seven years later, in his 23rd year. Two years afterward, Jehoshatphat died, and Jehoram became sole king.

2 Kings 8:17

The “eight years” are counted from his association in the kingdom. They terminate in the twelfth year of Johoram of Israel.

2 Kings 8:18

Jehoshaphat’s alliance, political and social, with Ahab and Ahab’s family had not been allowed to affect the purity of his faith. Jehoram his son, influenced by his wife, Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab, “walked in the way of the kings of Israel;” he allowed, i. e., the introduction of the Baal-worship into Judaea.

Among the worst of Jehoram’s evil doings must be reckoned the cruel murder of his six brothers 2 Chronicles 21:4, whom he killed to obtain their wealth.

2 Kings 8:19

The natural consequence of Jehoram’s apostasy would have been the destruction of his house, and the transfer of the throne of Judah to another family. Compare the punishments of Jeroboam 1 Kings 14:10, Baasha 1 Kings 16:2-4, and Ahab 1 Kings 21:20-22. But the promises to David (marginal references) prevented this removal of the dynasty; and so Jehoram was punished in other ways 2Ki 8:22; 2 Chronicles 21:12-19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 8:18. The daughter of Ahab was his wife — This was the infamous Athaliah; and through this marriage Jehoshaphat and Ahab were confederates; and this friendship was continued after Ahab's death.


 
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