2 Chronicles 22:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 22

⁴Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 22:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
2 Chronicles 24:17-18
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. …
Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Proverbs 19:27
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

We have here an account of the reign of Ahaziah, a short reign (of one year only), yet long enough, unless it had been better. He was called Jeho-ahaz (2 Chron. 21:17); here he is called Ahaz-iah, which is the same name and of the same signification, only the words of which it is compounded are transposed. He is here said to be forty-two years old when he began to reign (2 Chron. 22:2), which coul…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

3-4. his mother was his counsellor ... they were his counsellors--The facile king surrendered himself wholly to the influence of his mother and her relatives. Athaliah and her son introduced a universal corruption of morals and made idolatry the religion of the court and the nation. By them he was induced not only to conform to the religion of the northern kingdom, but to join a new expedition aga…