2 Kings 8:21-29

21 Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. And he arose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; ¹but his army fled to their tents.

22 ²So Edom revolted against * * Judah to this day. Then ³Libnah revolted at the same time.

23 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?

Ahaziah Succeeds Jehoram in Judah

24 So Joram slept with his fathers and ⁴was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and ⁵Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

25 ⁶In the twelfth * year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

26 ⁷Ahaziah was twenty-two * years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

27 ⁸He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab had done, because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

28 Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against ⁹Hazael king of Aram at ¹⁰Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.

29 So ¹¹King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at ¹²Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then ¹³Ahaziah 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 8:21-29 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 13

1. 2 Samuel 18:17; 2 Samuel 19:8
2. Genesis 27:40
3. Joshua 21:13; 2 Kings 19:8
4. 2 Chronicles 21:20
5. 2 Chronicles 21:1, 7
6. 2 Chronicles 22:1-6
7. 2 Chronicles 22:2
8. 2 Chronicles 22:3
9. 2 Kings 8:15
10. 1 Kings 22:3, 29
11. 2 Kings 9:15
12. 2 Kings 8:28; 2 Chronicles 22:5, 6
13. 2 Kings 9:16

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "the people"
[b]. Lit "from under the hand of"
[c]. Lit "smote"
[d]. Lit "struck"