2 Chronicles 21:4 - Exposition

Slew all his brethren … and also of the princes of Israel . It may be, as suggested by the genius of the last clause of our yet. 13, that Jehoram's wicked heart prompted him the rather because his own works were evil and his brothers' righteous. He may have thought their practical witness against him, and that of the "princes" who shared their fate, would be growingly inconvenient, and would work in them a necessary disloyalty ( 9:1-5 ). On the ether showing, the "princes" now cut down may have shown partiality and affection to the six brothers, one or other of them.