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Texts -- 2 Chronicles 22:9-12 (NET)

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22:9 He looked for Ahaziah , who was captured while hiding in Samaria . They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial , for they reasoned , “He is the son of Jehoshaphat , who sought the Lord with his whole heart .” There was no one in Ahaziah’s family strong enough to rule in his place .
Athaliah is Eliminated
22:10 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead , she was determined to destroy the entire royal line of Judah . 22:11 So Jehoshabeath , the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed . She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram , wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah , hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him. 22:12 He remained in hiding in God’s temple for six years , while Athaliah was ruling over the land .

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  • The events from Jehoram's reign that the Chronicler selected present a classic example of the consequences that follow departing from Yahweh. The king violated God's will by murdering his brothers (v. 4) and practicing idolat...
  • The house of Ahab also strongly influenced Ahaziah (v. 3). His mother was Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. Because of his apostasy Jehu executed Ahaziah along with his uncle Jehoram, the king of Israel. Ahaziah had...
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  • This pericope furnishes the plot for the drama that unfolds in the rest of the chapter.12:1 John saw a "sign,"something that signified or represented something else (cf. v. 3; 13:13-14; 15:1; 16:14; 19:29). Usually John used ...
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