Ahaziah(A) was twenty-two[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter[b] of Omri.

He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother gave him evil advice. So he did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab, for they were his advisers after the death of his father, to his destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:2 Some LXX mss, Syr; MT reads 42; 2Kg 8:26
  2. 22:2 Lit daughter

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