John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 8. And it came to pass, that when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab , etc.] On Joram, his son, and seventy more sons, his kinsfolks, courtiers, and priests: and found the princes of Judah, and or even the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah ; whose number was forty two: that ministered to Ahaziah ; had offices in his court, or in obedience to his will, went to visit the children of the king and queen of Israel: and he slew them ; Jehu did; of the occasion, time, and place of his meeting with them, and slaying them, (see 2 Kings 10:12-14).
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 _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew ויהי1961 כהשׁפט8199 יהוא3058 עם5973 בית1004 אחאב256 וימצא4672 את853 שׂרי8269 יהודה3063 ובני1121 אחי251 אחזיהו274 משׁרתים8334 לאחזיהו274 ויהרגם׃2026
