Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
We have here an account of the reign of Ahaziah, a short reign (of one year only), yet long enough, unless it had been better. He was called Jeho-ahaz (Ch2 21:17); here he is called Ahaz-iah, which is the same name and of the same signification, only the words of which it is compounded are transposed.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 22:1-9
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab,.... As his father Jehoram had, Ch2 21:6. for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly; to commit idolatry, who was of that idolatrous house.
his mother was his counsellor . . . they were his counsellors--The facile king surrendered himself wholly to the influence of his mother and her relatives. Athaliah and her son introduced a universal corruption of morals and made idolatry the religion of the court and the nation.