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.
We have here an account of the reign of Ahaziah, a short reign (of one year only), yet long enough, unless it had been better. He was called Jeho-ahaz (Ch2 21:17); here he is called Ahaz-iah, which is the same name and of the same signification, only the words of which it is compounded are transposed.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 22:1-9
And he sought Ahaziah,.... Who fled on Joram's being wounded by Jehu: and they caught him; the soldiers of Jehu, who were sent after him, and bid to smite him: for he was hid in Samaria; either in some part of the kingdom of Samaria, or in the city itself, whither he fled: and brought him to Jehu: who was at Jezreel; see Gill on...
2Ch 22:7-9 Without touching upon the conspiracy against Joram, narrated in 2 Kings 9, at the head of which was Jehu, the captain of the host, whom God caused to be anointed king over Israel by a scholar of the prophets deputed by Elisha, and whom he called upon to extirpate the idolatrous family of Ahab, since it did not belong to the plan of...
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 22:7-9