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Now Ahaziah was forty-two years[a] old when he began to reign, but he only reigned one year in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

And he also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab because his mother was the one counseling him to do evil. And he also did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, like the house of Ahab, for they served as his counselors after his father Jehoram died, which led to his destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 22:2 2Ki 8:26 reads twenty-two years.