2 Kings 8:28

“And he went with Joram the son of Ahab, etc.] His mother’s brother, and so his uncle: to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; which he went to recover out of the hands of the king of Syria, as his father Ahab had attempted in his time; in which he was assisted by Jehoshaphat, as now Joram was by a grandson of his: and the Syrians wounded Joram; as they did his father Ahab at the same place, though his wound was not mortal, as his father’s was. Ver. 29 And King Joram went back, etc.] From Ramoth, having taken it, and left his army there: to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah; the same with Ramothgilead: when he fought against Hazael…”

“This war of the two kings against Hazael seems to have had for its object the recovery of Ramoth-gilead, which Ahab and Jehoshaphat had vainly attempted fourteen years earlier 1 Kings 22:3-36. Joram probably thought that the accession of a new and usurping monarch presented a favorable opportunity for a renewal of the war. It may also have happened that Hazael was engaged at the time upon his northern frontier with repelling one of those Assyrian attacks which seem by the inscriptions to have fallen upon him in quick succession during his earlier years. At any rate, the war appears to have been successful. Ramoth-gilead was recovered 2 Kings 9:14, and remained probably thenceforth in the…”

“8:28-29 Once again, a king of Judah joined an Israelite king in battle against the Arameans at Ramoth-gilead (see 1 Kgs 22:1-40). • Jezreel served as a second capital for Israel during Ahab’s reign (1 Kgs 21:1); he retreated there after witnessing Elijah’s contest with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kgs 18:46).”

“am 3120, bc 884 he went: Kg2 3:7, Kg2 9:15; Kg1 22:4; Ch2 18:2, Ch2 18:3, Ch2 18:31, Ch2 19:2, Ch2 22:5 Hazael: Kg2 8:12, Kg2 8:13; Kg1 19:17 Ramothgilead: Jos 21:38; Kg1 4:13, Kg1 22:3 4 Kings (2 Kings) 8:29”

“Ahaziah went with Joram of Israel, his mother's brother, to the war with the Syrians at Ramoth. The contest for this city, which had already cost Ahab his life (1 Kings), was to furnish the occasion, according to the overruling providence of God, for the extermination of the whole of Omri's family. Being wounded in the battle with the Syrians, Joram king of Israel returned to Jezreel to be healed of his wounds. His nephew Ahaziah visited him there, and there he met with his death at the same time as Joram at the hands of Jehu, who had conspired against Joram (see Kg2 9:14. and Ch2 22:7-9). Whether the war with Hazael at Ramoth was for the recapture of this city, which had been taken by the…”