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2 Chronicles 22:8
So while Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jehu acts during his military purge of Ahab’s royal line, having just confronted King Ahaziah and King Joram on the field. He systematically locates and eliminates Ahaziah’s remaining Judahite officials and kin.
The words — כְּ/הִשָּׁפֵ֥ט (ke/hish.sha.Fet) = when/entered into judgment; וַ/יִּמְצָא֩ (va/i.yim.Tza') = and/he found. These terms frame the narrative as a deliberate discovery during the execution of a sanctioned campaign.
The thread — The purge fulfills the prophetic declaration that not a word against Ahab’s house would fail (2 Kings 10:10). The removal of Ahaziah’s surviving rulers and brothers completes the political extinction described in 2 Chronicles 22:9.
Why it lands — The text records the factual termination of a royal lineage through coordinated military action. It requires the reader to recognize the historical reality of divine judgment executing through human agents without embellishment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 10:10 Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”