He fled by the way of the garden-house By some secret way, hoping to escape while they were busy about Joram. Jehu said, Smite him also As you have done Joram, for he also is of the house of Ahab, chap. 2 Kings 8:18. And they did so They wounded him, but not mortally; being the more remiss in executing Jehu's sentence against him, either because they were not so much concerned in his, as in Joram's death; or because they had some regard for him for Jehoshaphat's sake. He fled to Megiddo, and died there The account of his death is briefly and imperfectly given here, and the defects are supplied in the book of Chronicles, (which was in a great part written to supply things omitted in the book of Kings,) and out of both, the history may be thus completed. He fled first to Megiddo, and thence to Samaria, where he was taken, and thence brought to Jehu, and by his sentence was put to death at Megiddo. And his servants carried him to Jerusalem, &c. Which they did, by Jehu's permission, out of respect to Jehoshaphat's memory, 2 Chronicles 22:9.
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2 Kings 9:27-28
27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.