2 Chronicles 22:3

3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.

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 inhabitants of Jerusalem made his youngest son Ahaziah king as his successor; for the troops who came with the Arabs to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram reigned as king of Judah.

2 Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.

4 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done; for after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his ruin.

5 He even followed their advice, and went with Jehoram son of King Ahab of Israel to make war against King Hazael of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. The Arameans wounded Joram,