He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
Parallel translations
- WEB He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting 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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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 27:12–13My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
- Deut 13:6–10If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
- Judg 17:4–5Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
- Neh 13:23–27In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
- Gen 6:4–5There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
- Deut 7:3–4Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
- Matt 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
- Mal 2:15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
- Acts 4:19But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
- Matt 14:8–11And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.
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