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2 Chronicles 22 General Notes
Structure and formatting
This chapter is the beginning of the story of Queen Athaliah.
Important figures of speech in this chapter
Metaphor
The author compares Athaliah's evil deeds to Ahab's family's evil lives: "walked in the ways of the house of Ahab." Ahab is pictured as the epitome of evil. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor, rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil and rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/works)