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Excerpt-“So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead” (1 Kings 22:40).
Some men are qualified for a place of leadership because of special talents or training, while others, who are not capable of honor, inherit power or position, even thrones. However, God in His government might allow such men to rule because of the people’s moral state. This was the case with Ahaziah; years of rebellion and idolatry in Israel had brought upon them just such a king.
God will hold leaders, or those in authority, responsible to rule in righteousness and to give the light of God to their subjects (Gen. 1:14-18). Israel was the nation in which the principles of righteousness, coupled with the light from God, were to be displayed.
If a man in a special position is unable to carry out his responsibility, he can own his failure to God, as King David did in 2 Samuel 23:1-5.
In the history of Ahaziah (1 Kings 22:51-53), there is a summing up of evils of former leaders. Ahab wrought wickedness so that there were none like him before or after; Jezebel, the daughter of the king of the Sidonians, a cursed race, introduced idolatry into Israel in the worship of Baal; and even Jeroboam, who had made Israel to sin long before, was mentioned here.
Ahaziah should have learned from these and taken a different course, but instead he condoned and followed their wickedness, his evil fostering being his downfall. Many mothers of faith were rewarded with sons as Moses, Hezekiah, Lemuel, and Josiah.
“And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease” (2 Kings 1:2).
Although Ahaziah was bound in the chains of idolatrous religious tradition by father and mother, still he was conscious that he must answer to God. Special responsibility rests with the king of God’s people, and he was made well aware of this by the affliction that came his way. The principles of God’s government found here are the same today; they change not. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Gal. 6:7).
Instead of turning to the Lord and inquiring of God’s prophet, Ahaziah willfully sent to inquire of Baal-zebub. Because they turn not “to the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isa. 8:20). During the time of the great tribulation, Israel “taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first” (Matt. 12:45).