2 Chronicles 22:3
New International Version
He too followed the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly.

New Living Translation
Ahaziah also followed the evil example of King Ahab’s family, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong.

English Standard Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.

Berean Standard Bible
Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.

King James Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.

New King James Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother advised him to do wickedly.

New American Standard Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to act wickedly.

NASB 1995
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

NASB 1977
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

Legacy Standard Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

Amplified Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his adviser [and she encouraged him] to act wickedly.

Christian Standard Bible
He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother gave him evil advice.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother gave him evil advice.

American Standard Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he walked in the ways of the house of Akhab, because he was son of the sister of Akhab, also he was sinning greatly.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he walked in the way of the house of Achaab; for his mother was his counsellor to do evil.

Contemporary English Version
and she encouraged her son to sin against the LORD. He followed the evil example of King Ahab and his descendants.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.

English Revised Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Ahaziah also followed the ways of Ahab's family, because his mother gave him advice that led him to sin.

International Standard Version
He followed the example of Ahab's dynasty because his mother gave him evil counsel.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

Literal Standard Version
he has also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother has been his counselor to do wickedly.

Majority Standard Bible
Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.

New American Bible
He, too, walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, because his mother was his counselor in doing evil.

NET Bible
He followed in the footsteps of Ahab's dynasty, for his mother gave him evil advice.

New Revised Standard Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.

New Heart English Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

Webster's Bible Translation
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

World English Bible
He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

Young's Literal Translation
he also hath walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother hath been his counsellor to do wickedly.

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Context
Ahaziah Reigns in Judah
2Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri. 3Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness. 4And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father.…

Cross References
2 Kings 8:27
And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

2 Chronicles 22:2
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

2 Chronicles 22:4
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father.

2 Chronicles 28:2
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals.


Treasury of Scripture

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

his mother

Genesis 6:4,5
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown…

Deuteronomy 7:3,4
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son…

Deuteronomy 13:6-10
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; …

his counsellor

Genesis 27:12,13
My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing…

Matthew 10:37
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

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2 Chronicles 22
1. Ahaziah succeeding, reigns wickedly
5. in his confederacy with Joram, the son of Ahab, he is slain by Jehu
10. Athaliah, destroying all the seed royal, save Joash, usurps the kingdom














(3) He also.--The pronoun is emphatic: he too, like his father. Kings: "And he walked."

Walked in the ways of the house of Ahab.--2Chronicles 21:6; 2Chronicles 21:13; Micah 6:16.

For his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.--Not in Kings; an explanatory remark added by the chronicler. (Comp. 2Chronicles 20:35; 2Chronicles 21:6.) Her influence would be used in support of the Baal worship, which was the symbol of alliance with the northern kingdom. . . .

Verse 3. - The mother and the house of Ahab had become a proverb and a by-word for their evil. In this and the following two verses stress is laid on the evil counsel and the sources of it that prejudiced Ahaziah to his ruin. Although the parallel wants these direct statements, perhaps it scarcely says less, when it says (ver. 27), "For he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Ahaziah
ה֣וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

also
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

walked
הָלַ֔ךְ (hā·laḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

in the ways
בְּדַרְכֵ֖י (bə·ḏar·ḵê)
Preposition-b | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

of the house
בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of Ahab,
אַחְאָ֑ב (’aḥ·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 256: Ahab -- 'father's brother', a king of Israel, also a false prophet

for
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

his mother
אִמּ֛וֹ (’im·mōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

was his counselor
יֽוֹעַצְתּ֖וֹ (yō·w·‘aṣ·tōw)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3289: To advise, to deliberate, resolve

in wickedness.
לְהַרְשִֽׁיעַ׃ (lə·har·šî·a‘)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7561: To be, wrong, to disturb, violate


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OT History: 2 Chronicles 22:3 He also walked in the ways (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr)
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