Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
Because
The son of jehoshaphat
The house
Bible References
Because
1 Kings 14:13
Howbeit, all Israel shall mourn him and bury him, for this only of all Jeroboam shall come to the sepulchre, because in him there is found goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
2 Kings 9:28
And his servants carried him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
The son of jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 17:3
And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the old ways of his father David, and sought not Baals:
2 Chronicles 21:20
When he began to reign, he was twenty seven years old, and reigned in Jerusalem eight years. And he walked not pleasantly and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchre of the kings.
The house
2 Chronicles 22:1
And the inhabiters of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: For the men of war that came with the Arabians in the host had slain all his elder sons. And so Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah, was made king.
2 Chronicles 21:4
And when Jehoram was up upon the kingdom of his father and settled, he slew all his other brethren with the sword, and divers of the lords of Israel thereto.