Two and [a]forty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned [b]one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter [c]of Omri.

He walked also in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother counseled him to do wickedly.

Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab: for they were his [d]counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 22:2 Read 2 Chron. 21:20.
  2. 2 Chronicles 22:2 That is, after the death of his father.
  3. 2 Chronicles 22:2 She was Ahab’s daughter, who was the son of Omri.
  4. 2 Chronicles 22:4 He showeth that it must needs follow that the rulers are such as their counselors be, and that there cannot be a good King, that suffereth wicked counselors.

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