Jehoahaz] In xxii. 1 he is called Ahaziah, which is only another form of the name, the prefix Jeho- of the one, and the ending -iah of the other being each the representative of the Divine name Jehovah. The name in either form means “Jehovah hath taken” (or “grasped”). Parallel instances are the names Jehoshaphat and Shephatiah (verse 2) and Jehonathan and Nethaniah in xvii. 8.
18–20 (compare 2 Kings viii. 24).
Death and Burial of Jehoram.
¹⁸And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. ¹⁹And it came to pass, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
19. by reason of his sickness] LXX. μετὰ τῆς νόσου, i.e. in the course of his sickness.
no burning] compare xvi. 14 (note).
²⁰Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
20. he departed without being desired] literally without desire: i.e. he lived so that none desired him, or he lived as no one desired. Compare LXX., ἐπορεύθη οὐκ ἐν ἐπαίνῳ, literally “he walked without praise.”
but not in the sepulchres of the kings] According to Kings he “was buried with his fathers.” Compare xxiv. 25, xxviii. 27.