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22 Then the people of Jerusalem chose Ahaziah,[a] his youngest son, as their new king (for the marauding bands of Arabs had killed his older sons). Ahaziah was twenty-two years old[b] when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter of Omri. He, too, walked in the evil ways of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 22:1 Ahaziah, also called “Jehoahaz.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 22:2 twenty-two years old. Some manuscripts read “forty-two years old”; but see 2 Kings 8:26.

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