He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
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He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
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He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
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He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 22:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 27:12-13 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.” His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
- Genesis 6:4-5 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
- Deuteronomy 7:3-4 You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
- Deuteronomy 13:6-10 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth— you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him; but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people. You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Judges 17:4-5 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah. The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
- Nehemiah 13:23-27 In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab; and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people. I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin. Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
- Malachi 2:15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
- Matthew 10:37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
- Matthew 14:8-11 She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.” The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given, and he sent and beheaded John in the prison. His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother.
- Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 22:3 He also walked in the ways of…
2Ch 22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
Ver. 3. For his mother was his counsellor.] Mothers have a great influence upon their children, whether for good or evil. Catherine de Medici, queen mother of France, for instance, a second Athaliah.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Being a crafty and au imperious woman.
Being a crafty and au imperious woman.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He also walked in the ways of the house…
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab,.... As his father Jehoram had, Ch2 21:6.
for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly; to commit idolatry, who was of that idolatrous house.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. His mother was his counsellor] Athaliah, the…
Verse 3. His mother was his counsellor] Athaliah, the wicked daughter of a wicked parent, and the wicked spouse of an unprincipled king.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 22:3-4. He walked in the ways of the…
2Ch 22:3-4. He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab — Called their ways, not because they were the first inventors of them in these parts, but the chief establishers. These ways did not consist merely in the worshipping of God by an image, which was the way of Jeroboam; but in the worship of other gods besides the God of Israel, namely, Baal-gods, or Baalim. For his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly — Being a crafty and an imperious woman. Those that counsel persons to do wickedly, counsel them to their destruction. It is bad enough when strangers do this, but when parents give such counsel to their own children, it is deplorable indeed! The counsel of the ungodly is the ruin of many young people of both sexes, especially if given to them when they are setting out in life. They were his counsellors after the death of his father — Who, while he lived, seduced his son by his counsel and authority, and kept him to idolatry, and so rendered other evil counsellors unnecessary.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Pushed. Heb. and Sept. "was his counsellor to," &c.
Pushed. Heb. and Sept. "was his counsellor to," &c.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain his mother was his counsellor . . . they…
his mother was his counsellor . . . they were his counsellors--The facile king surrendered himself wholly to the influence of his mother and her relatives. Athaliah and her son introduced a universal corruption of morals and made idolatry the religion of the court and the nation. By them he was induced not only to conform to the religion of the northern kingdom, but to join a new expedition against Ramoth-gilead (see Kg2 9:10).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) He also.—The pronoun is emphatic: he too, like…
(3) He also.—The pronoun is emphatic: he too, like his father. Kings: “And he walked.”
Walked in the ways of the house of Ahab.—2Ch_21:6; 2Ch_21:13; Mic_6:16.
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For his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.—Not in Kings; an explanatory remark added by the chronicler. (Comp. 2Ch_20:35; 2Ch_21:6.) Her influence would be used in support of the Baal worship, which was the symbol of alliance with the northern kingdom.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The mother and the house of Ahab had become…
The mother and the house of Ahab had become a proverb and a by-word for their evil. In this and the following two verses stress is laid on the evil counsel and the sources of it that prejudiced Ahaziah to his ruin. Although the parallel wants these direct statements, perhaps it scarcely says less, when it says (ver. 27), "For he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab."
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