diff --git a/content/bible_journal/2chronicles/22:1-12.md b/content/bible_journal/2chronicles/22:1-12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..923842f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/2chronicles/22:1-12.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ ++++ +title = "2 Chronicles 22:1–12" +date = "2025-03-19" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2Chronicles22.1-12) + +After Jehoram died, he had only one son remaining to become king, his youngest son Ahaziah. +Just as Athaliah counseled her husband in the ways of her father Ahab, so did she counsel her son as well. +Besides the further encouragement of idolatry, Ahaziah's counselors also let him join the king of Israel in a war with Syria, and this turned out to be his undoing. + +At the battle of Ramoth-gilead (again) king Joram is injured. +Being his nephew and ally, Ahaziah goes to visit him where he is recuperating in Jezreel. +However, the Elisha had prophesied that Jehu would bring about the destruction of the house of Ahab, the father of Joram and the grandfather of Ahaziah. +Jehu met the kings at Jezreel and killed them, though Ahaziah escaped for a short time. +Unlike his father, Ahaziah was given an honorable burial on account of his other grandfather, Jehoshaphat. + +Athaliah, the queen mother, took this opportunity to grab the throne and rule Judah herself. +She began a purge of the entire royal family so that none would be able to challenge her. +However, God's promises to David that his throne would never lack a son would not be defeated so easily. +Jehoram's daughter Jehoshabeath hid away Ahaziah's son Joash in the temple of the Lord, because she was married to the priest Jehoiada. +There he remained hidden for six years. + +* * * + +You are the Wonderful Counselor, and You instruct us in the proper ways.