John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 3. He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab , etc.] As his father Jehoram had, ( 2 Chronicles 21:6 2 Kings 8:27) for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly ; to commit idolatry, who was of that idolatrous house.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- The reign of Ahaziah, Athaliah destroys the royal family.
--The counsel of the ungodly ruins many young persons when they ar setting out in the world. Ahaziah gave himself up to be led by evi men. Those who advise us to do wickedly, counsel us to our destruction while they pretend to be friends, they are our worst enemies. See an dread the mischief of bad company. If not the infection, yet let thy destruction be feared, Re 18:4. We have here, a wicked woma endeavouring to destroy the house of David, and a good woman preservin it. No word of God shall fall to the ground. The whole truth of the prophecies that the Messiah was to come from David, and thereby the salvation of the world, appeared to be now hung upon the brittle threa of the life of a single infant, to destroy whom was the interest of the reigning power. But God had purposed, and vain were the efforts of earth and hell _________________________________________________
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