and they caught him;
the soldiers of Jehu, who were sent after him, and bid to smite him:
for he was hid in Samaria;
either in some part of the kingdom of Samaria, or in the city itself, whither he fled:
and brought him to Jehu:
who was at Jezreel, (See Gill on 2 Kings 9:27),
and when they had slain him they buried him;
not at Jezreel, but delivered him to his servants to carry him to Jerusalem, and there bury him in the sepulchres of his fathers, ( 2 Kings 9:28 ) ,
because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord
with all his heart;
a grandson of his, and therefore out of respect to the memory of his name, these being religious men, ordered his burial there:
so the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom;
his brethren and their sons being slain, and his own children being young fell into the hands of Athaliah, who murdered them all, but one, hid by his aunt, and so got the government into her own hands, as may be observed in the following verses, ( 2 Chronicles 22:10-12 ) .