2 Chronicles 22:3
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New International Version (©2011)
He too followed the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Ahaziah also followed the evil example of King Ahab's family, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother gave him evil advice.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He followed the example of Ahab's dynasty because his mother gave him evil counsel.

NET Bible (©2006)
He followed in the footsteps of Ahab's dynasty, for his mother gave him evil advice.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Ahaziah also followed the ways of Ahab's family, because his mother gave him advice that led him to sin.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

American King James Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

American Standard Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.

Darby Bible Translation
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

English Revised Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

Webster's Bible Translation
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

World English Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

Young's Literal Translation
he also hath walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother hath been his counsellor to do wickedly.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-12 The reign of Ahaziah, Athaliah destroys the royal family. - The counsel of the ungodly ruins many young persons when they are setting out in the world. Ahaziah gave himself up to be led by evil men. Those who advise us to do wickedly, counsel us to our destruction; while they pretend to be friends, they are our worst enemies. See and dread the mischief of bad company. If not the infection, yet let the destruction be feared, Re 18:4. We have here, a wicked woman endeavouring to destroy the house of David, and a good woman preserving it. No word of God shall fall to the ground. The whole truth of the prophecies that the Messiah was to come from David, and thereby the salvation of the world, appeared to be now hung upon the brittle thread of the life of a single infant, to destroy whom was the interest of the reigning power. But God had purposed, and vain were the efforts of earth and hell.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - 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."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab,.... As his father Jehoram had, 2 Chronicles 21:6.

for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly; to commit idolatry, who was of that idolatrous house.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3, 4. 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 2Ki 9:10).

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Ahaziah Reigns Wickedly in Judah
1And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 2Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. 3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

2 Kings 8:27 He followed the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to Ahab's family.
2 Chronicles 22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.
2 Chronicles 22:4 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father's death they became his advisers, to his undoing.
2 Chronicles 28:2 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals.