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2 Chronicles 22 Bible study: Hidden in God's house
2 Chronicles gives two causes for Ahaziah's fall side by side: his counselors, "to his destruction" (22:4), and God (22:7), with two different Hebrew words. And when all the royal offspring were destroyed, one son was stealthily rescued by his father's sister, a priest's wife, and kept "hidden in God’s house six years" (22:12).
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“He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.”
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“In 2 Chronicles 22:6, the WEB names the king of Judah who went down to Jezreel "Azariah".”
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Counselors to his destruction
2 Kings and 2 Chronicles both say Ahaziah went the way of Ahab's house. 2 Kings gives a family reason: "for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house" (2 Kings 8:27). 2 Chronicles names who counseled him. First his mother, "Athaliah the daughter of Omri" (22:2): "He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly" (22:3). Then Ahab's house itself: "they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction" (22:4). And he listened: "He also followed their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead" (22:5). Three verses in a row use the Hebrew words for counsel (tap counselor and counsel). Ahaziah's father had gone the same way: Jehoram "walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house, for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife" (21:6).
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The Hebrew word behind it
תְּבוּסָהtevusahsay te-voo-SAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "down-treading = ruin, downfall". Strong's: "a treading down, i.e. ruin". "Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram" (22:7). This is the only place the Hebrew Bible uses the word. It is not the word of 22:4, where Ahab's house were his counselors "to his destruction" (22:4): that is mashchit (tap destruction in 22:4). The chapter names both, the counselors and God.
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2 Chronicles 22 Bible study questions
- 1Ahaziah's mother was "his counselor in acting wickedly" (22:3), and others counseled him "to his destruction" (22:4). Whose counsel shapes your choices most? How do you tell good counsel from bad?
- 2At Ahaziah's burial, people remembered his grandfather as one "who sought the LORD with all his heart" (22:9). What would you want people to be able to say of you? What would it take to get there?
- 3Jehoshabeath took one child and hid him (22:11), and for six years he was kept "hidden in God’s house" (22:12). Who has quietly looked out for you? Who could you look out for this week?
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