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King Ahaziah of Judah(A)

22 Some Arabs had led a raid and killed all of King Jehoram's sons except Ahaziah, the youngest. So now the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah king as his father's successor. 2-3 Ahaziah became king at the age of twenty-two,[a] and he ruled in Jerusalem for one year. Ahaziah also followed the example of King Ahab's family, since his mother Athaliah—the daughter of King Ahab and granddaughter of King Omri of Israel—gave him advice that led him into evil.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 22:2 Some ancient translations (and see 2 K 8.26) twenty-two; Hebrew forty-two.

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