He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
Parallel translations
- KJV He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
- BSB Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
- NKJV He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother advised him to do wickedly.
- NASB He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to act wickedly.
- NLT Ahaziah also followed the evil example of King Ahab’s family, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong.
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Quick answer
Ahaziah followed the wicked ways of Ahab's house because his mother counseled him toward evil. Bad counsel from his own family led him astray.
Overview
Ahaziah walked in the sins of Ahab's dynasty, with Athaliah encouraging him in wickedness. The verse exposes how ungodly advisors, even a parent, can ruin a ruler. It warns that the company and counsel we keep profoundly shape our path.
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- Gen 27:12–13What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”
- Deut 13:6–10If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Judg 17:4–5When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made an engraved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.
- Neh 13:23–27In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
- Gen 6:4–5The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Deut 7:3–4neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
- Matt 10:37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
- Mal 2:15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
- Acts 4:19But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
- Matt 14:8–11She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”
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