2 Chronicles 22:3

3 He lived and ruled just like the Ahab family had done, his mother training him in evil ways.

2 Chronicles 22:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 22:3

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab
As his father Jehoram had, ( 2 Chronicles 21:6 ) ( 2 Kings 8:27 )

for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly;
to commit idolatry, who was of that idolatrous house.

2 Chronicles 22:3 In-Context

1 The people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram's youngest son, king. Raiders from the desert, who had come with the Arabs against the settlement, had killed all the older sons. That's how Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah became king.
2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, but reigned only one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, granddaughter of Omri.
3 He lived and ruled just like the Ahab family had done, his mother training him in evil ways.
4 God also considered him evil, related by both marriage and sin to the Ahab clan. After the death of his father, he attended the sin school of Ahab, and graduated with a degree in doom.
5 He did what they taught him, went with Joram son of Ahab king of Israel in the war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. Joram, wounded by the Arameans,
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