--- title: "Clarke" description: "Verse 2 Chronicles 22:1. Made Ahaziah his youngest son king — All the others had been slain by the Arabians, c. see the preceding chapter, 2 Chronicles 21" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/2-chronicles/22" --- Verse [2 Chronicles 22:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/1). ***Made Ahaziah his youngest son king*** — All the others had been slain by the Arabians, c. see the preceding chapter, [2 Chronicles 21:17](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/21/17). Verse [2 Chronicles 22:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/2). ***Forty and two years old was Ahaziah*** — [2 Kings 8:26](../../../kjv/2-kings/8/26). Ahaziah might have been *twenty-two* years old, according to [2 Kings 8:26](../../../kjv/2-kings/8/26), but he could not have been *forty-two*, as stated here, without being *two years older* *than his own father*! See the note there. The *Syriac* and *Arabic* have *twenty-two*, and the *Septuagint*, in some copies, *twenty*. And it is very probable that the Hebrew text read so originally; for when *numbers* were expressed by *single letters*, it was easy to mistake מ *mem*, FORTY, for כ *caph*, TWENTY. And if this book was written by a scribe who used the ancient *Hebrew letters*, now called the *Samaritan*, the mistake was still more easy and probable, as the difference between [Samaritan] *caph* and [Samaritan] *mem* is very small, and can in many instances be discerned only by an accustomed eye. The reading in [2 Kings 8:26](../../../kjv/2-kings/8/26) is *right*, and any attempt to reconcile this in *Chronicles* with *that* is equally futile and absurd. *Both* readings cannot be *true*; is that therefore likely to be genuine that makes the *son two years* *older* than the *father* who begat him? *Apage hae nugae*! Verse [2 Chronicles 22:3](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/3). ***His mother was his counsellor*** — Athaliah, the wicked daughter of a wicked parent, and the wicked spouse of an unprincipled king. Verse [2 Chronicles 22:5](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/5). ***Went with Jehoram*** — See on [2 Kings 8:28](../../../kjv/2-kings/8/28). Verse [2 Chronicles 22:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/9). ***He sought Ahaziah*** — See a different account [2 Kings 9:27](../../../kjv/2-kings/9/27), and the note there, where the accounts are reconciled. Verse [2 Chronicles 22:10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/10). ***All the seed royal of the house of Judah*** — Nothing but the miraculous intervention of the Divine providence could have saved the line of David at this time, and preserved the prophecy relative to the Messiah. The whole truth of that prophecy, and the salvation of the world, appeared to be now suspended on the brittle thread of the life of an *infant* of a year old, (see [2 Chronicles 24:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/24/1),) to destroy whom was the interest of the reigning power! But God can save by few as well as by many. He had purposed, and vain were the counter-exertions of earth and hell. Verse [2 Chronicles 22:12](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/12). ***Hid in the house of God*** — "In the house of the sanctuary of God." - *Targum*. Or, as he says on [2 Chronicles 22:11](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/22/11), בקודש קודשיא bekudash kudeshaiya "in the holy of holies." To this place Athaliah had no access, therefore Joash lay concealed, he and his affectionate aunt-nurse. - See on [2 Kings 11:1](../../../kjv/2-kings/11/1). ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/2-chronicles/22#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","width":640,"height":370,"caption":"Clarke's Commentary - 2 Chronicles 22"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/2-chronicles/22#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/2-chronicles/22","name":"Clarke's Commentary - 2 Chronicles 22","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/2-chronicles/22#primaryimage"},"datePublished":null,"dateModified":null,"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Verse 2 Chronicles 22:1. 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