2 Kings 9:27

Jehu Orders the Assassination of Ahaziah

27 When Ahaziah king of Judah saw, he fled the way of Beth-Haggen. Jehu pursued after him and said, "Shoot him also, in the chariot." [They shot him] at the ascent of Gur which [is] in Ibleam, and he fled [to] Megiddo, but he died there.

2 Kings 9:27 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 9:27

But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this
That Joram was slain:

he fled by the way of the garden house,
which perhaps stood upon the spot where Naboth's vineyard was, turned into a garden by Ahab:

and Jehu followed after him;
as far as Samaria, where he was hid, ( 2 Chronicles 22:9 ) ,

and said, smite him also in the chariot;
this order he gave to his soldiers, to do to him as he had done to Joram: and they did so,

at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam;
a city in the tribe of Manasseh, ( Joshua 17:11 ) ,

and he fled to Megiddo;
after he was wounded; another city in the same tribe, ( Joshua 17:11 ) ,

and died there;
at Megiddo; though some think that from thence he was had by his servants to Samaria, and there hid, and, being found, was brought from thence to Jezreel, where he was slain, and died. Jehu was ordered to destroy the whole house of Ahab, and Ahaziah was of that house by his mother's side, and walked in the way of it, and was in conjunction with it, and perished therewith; this, though here recorded, was after the death of Jezebel, and of the seventy sons of Ahab, and of the brethren of Ahaziah.

2 Kings 9:27 In-Context

25 He said to Bidkar his third [servant], "Lift [him] out and throw him on the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember, you and I [were] with the pair [of chariots] behind Ahab his father when Yahweh pronounced this oracle against him:

26 '"Since I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his children yesterday," declares Yahweh, "I will requite it for you in this tract of land," declares Yahweh.' So then lift him out and throw him on the tract of land according to the word of Yahweh."

27 When Ahaziah king of Judah saw, he fled the way of Beth-Haggen. Jehu pursued after him and said, "Shoot him also, in the chariot." [They shot him] at the ascent of Gur which [is] in Ibleam, and he fled [to] Megiddo, but he died there.

28 Then his officers carried him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

29 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.