{"id":4199,"date":"2018-11-24T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2018-11-27T15:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:56:25","slug":"2-chronicles-221-were-jehorams-sons-taken-captive-or-were-they-killed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/2-chronicles-221-were-jehorams-sons-taken-captive-or-were-they-killed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Chronicles 22:8\u2014Were Ahaziah\u2019s brothers slain or were they his brother\u2019s sons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Here we are told that it was king Ahaziah\u2019s brother\u2019s \u201csons\u201d who were killed. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=2Ki10.13-14\">2 Kings 10:13\u201314<\/a> says it was Ahaziah\u2019s \u201cbrothers\u201d that were slain.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong> The Hebrew term for \u201cbrother\u201d can mean \u201cnear relative.\u201d For example, Abraham\u2019s nephew Lot was called his \u201cbrother\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Ge14.12\">Gen. 14:12<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Ge14.16\">16<\/a>). Since Ahaziah, the youngest son, was born when his father was only 18, he could have had many nephews and cousins or \u201cbrethren.\u201d Since the 2 Chronicles passage refers to his brother\u2019s sons, the word \u201cbrother\u201d can be taken in the strict sense here.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">It is also quite possible that both statements are literally true. Since Jehu was commanded by God to exterminate the house of Ahab, and since Ahaziah \u201cwalked in the way of the house of Ahab,\u201d it is conceivable that Jehu took it upon himself to destroy the house of Ahaziah also, including his brothers and his brothers\u2019 sons. In fact, in the 2 Kings passage, the report of the killing of Ahaziah\u2019s brothers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=2Ki10.13-14\">2 Kings 10:13\u201314<\/a>) takes place after Jehu had killed Ahaziah (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=2Ki9.27\">2 Kings 9:27<\/a>), while the 2 Chronicles passage reports the killing of the sons of Ahaziah\u2019s brothers before the killing of Ahaziah (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=2Ch22.8-9\">2 Chron. 22:8\u20139<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Here we are told that it was king Ahaziah\u2019s brother\u2019s \u201csons\u201d who were killed. But 2 Kings 10:13\u201314 says it was Ahaziah\u2019s \u201cbrothers\u201d that were slain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}