2 Chronicles 22:3
New Revised Standard Version
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.

Contemporary English Version
and she encouraged her son to sin against the LORD. He followed the evil example of King Ahab and his descendants.

New American Bible
He, too, walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, because his mother was his counselor in doing evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.

his mother

Genesis 6:4,5 Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown. . . .

Deuteronomy 7:3,4 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son: . . .

Deuteronomy 13:6-10 If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers, . . .

Judges 17:4,5 And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a graven and a molten God, which was in the house of Michas. . . .

Nehemiah 13:23-27 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. . . .

Malachi 2:15 Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

Matthew 14:8-11 But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist. . . .

his counsellor

Genesis 27:12,13 If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing. . . .

Matthew 10:37 He 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.

Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye.

Context
Ahaziah Reigns in Judah
2Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri. 3He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.4So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Achab did: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.…
Cross References
2 Kings 8:27
And he walked in the ways of the house of Achab: and he did evil before the Lord, as did the house of Achab: for he was the son in law of the house of Achab.

2 Chronicles 22:2
Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri.

2 Chronicles 22:4
So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Achab did: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 28:2
But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he cast statues for Baalim.

2 Chronicles 22:2
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