He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.

He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

But he too went forth in the ways of the house of Ahab. For his mother impelled him to act impiously.

His mother was his counsellor - Athaliah, the wicked daughter of a wicked parent, and the wicked spouse of an unprincipled king.

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab,.... As his father Jehoram had, 2-Chronicles 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. By them he was induced not only to conform to the religion of the northern kingdom, but to join a new expedition against Ramoth-gilead (see 2-Kings 9:10).

He also (like his father Joram, 2-Chronicles 21:6) walked in the ways of the house of Ahab. This statement is accounted for by the clause: for his mother (a daughter of Ahab and the godless Jezebel) was his counsellor to do evil, i.e., led him to give himself up to the idolatry of the house of Ahab.