2 Kings 8:20-29

20 In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up ¹a king of their own.

21 Then Joram^[a] passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army ²fled home.

22 ³So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then ⁴Libnah revolted at the same time.

23 Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

24 So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried ⁵with his fathers in the city of David, and ⁶Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

Ahaziah Reigns in Judah

25 ⁷In the ⁸twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.

26 Ahaziah was ⁹twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah; she was ¹⁰a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

27 He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.

28 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against ¹¹Hazael king of Syria at ¹²Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.

29 ¹³And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at ¹⁴Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And ¹⁵Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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2 Kings 8:20-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 8

This chapter gives an account of some advice Elisha had formerly given to the Shunammite woman, and of the success of it, 2Ki 8:1-6 and of the sickness of the king of Syria, who sent to Elisha, then being at Damascus, by Hazael, to know whether he should recover; by whom a message was returned, and Hazael was told by the prophet he should be king of Syria, and exercise great cruelty in Israel, 2Ki 8:7-15 and of the bad reign of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, over Judah, 2Ki 8:16-24 and of the reign of his son Ahaziah, 2Ki 8:25-29.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

1. 2 Kings 3:9; [1 Kings 22:47]
2. See 2 Samuel 18:17
3. [Genesis 27:40]
4. Joshua 10:29, 30
5. [2 Chronicles 21:20]
6. [2 Chronicles 21:17; 2 Chronicles 22:6; 2 Chronicles 25:23]
7. For ver. 25-29, see 2 Chronicles 22:1-6
8. [2 Kings 9:29]
9. [2 Chronicles 22:2]
10. [1 Kings 15:10]
11. ver. 15
12. [1 Kings 22:3]
13. 2 Kings 9:15
14. 2 Chronicles 22:6; [ver. 28; 2 Chronicles 22:5]
15. 2 Kings 9:16

Footnotes 1

[a]. Joram is another spelling of Jehoram (the son of Jehoshaphat) as in verse 16; also verses 23, 24

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