2 Chronicles 22

2 Chronicles 22:1

AHaziah] called also Azariah v. 6. and Ieloahaz 2 Chronicles 21:17. [slaine] after they had carried them away into captivity, 2 Chronicles 21:17.

2 Chronicles 22:2

Forty and two] 2 Kings 8:26. it is said that hee was two and twenty yeares of age, which is confirmed by that, that Ieboram the father of Abaziah was two and thirty yeares of age when he began to reigne, and reigned eight years, which in all is forty: whereupon hee could not have a sonne of two and forty yeares of age when hee succeeded his father. This difficulty is in dissoluble, and it is likely that there is some alteration happened in these accompts, or in the figures by some unknown meanes.

2 Chronicles 22:6

Azariah] which is the same as Ahaziah, and Iehahaz, 2 Chronicles 21:17.

2 Chronicles 22:8

Of the brethren] of his nearest kinsmen, for his brethren were all slain, 2 Chror. 21. 17. and 22. 1.

2 Chronicles 22:9

In Samaria] in the ten tribes countrey, whose chiefe city is Samaria, for otherwise this happened in Iezreel, 2 Kings 9. 16. 27. [slaine im] hee was wounded to death by Iehuespeople, but he led to Meggido and there died, 2 Kings 9:27. [said they] Iehu, or his people, who suffered the body to bee carried to Ierusalem. Or Ahaziah his own people, in reverence of his grandfather Iehoshaphats memory: [had no power] either by reason of their tender age, or for want of partakers, or by reason of Athalias might; none could take possession of the Kingdome, nor bee established in it by the people.

2 Chronicles 22:10

The seed royall] as well the children of Ahaziah which were her own grandchildren, as the other neere kinsmen.

2 Chronicles 22:11

A bed chambar] one of the chambers where the Priests lay.

2 Chronicles 22:12

With them] namely with the high Priest his Family.