Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign—(Compare II Kings 8:26). According to that passage, the commencement of his reign is dated in the twenty-second year of his age, and, according to this, in the forty-second year of the kingdom of his mother's family [LIGHTFOOT]. "If Ahaziah ascended the throne in the twenty-second year of his life, he must have been born in his father's nineteenth year. Hence, it may seem strange that he had older brothers; but in the East they marry early, and royal princes had, besides the wife of the first rank, usually concubines, as Jehoram had (II Chronicles 21:17); he might, therefore, in the nineteenth year of his age, very well have several sons" [KEIL] (compare II Chronicles 21:20; II Kings 8:17).
Athaliah the daughter of Omri—more properly, "granddaughter." The expression is used loosely, as the statement was made simply for the purpose of intimating that she belonged to that idolatrous race.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Chronicles 22:2:
2 Kings 11:1
2 Chronicles 22:1
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